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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo states that a Snopes poet obviously finds conservatism _____.
(a) Suspect.
(b) Natural.
(c) Abhorrent.
(d) Faultless.

2. Hugo says to hope hard to always fall short of _____.
(a) Popularity.
(b) Failure.
(c) Mastery.
(d) Success.

3. Who is Hugo's creative writing teacher at West Seattle High School?
(a) Eliot Renner.
(b) Jonathon Baker Reese.
(c) Anne Johnstone.
(d) Belle McKensie.

4. A suggestion Hugo makes is to end more than half the lines and more than two-thirds of the sentences on _____.
(a) Words of one syllable.
(b) An exclamation.
(c) A dangling participle.
(d) A multisyllabic word.

5. After Hugo reclaims his past in the war, he and his wife become tourists and visit _____ in Lecce.
(a) Baroque churches.
(b) Classical art galleries.
(c) Fountains.
(d) Libraries.

6. Hugo's fear when he is bombing makes it hard concentration difficult and he didn't trust _____.
(a) His eyesight.
(b) The equipment.
(c) His captain.
(d) The strategy.

7. What is the poetry term for a rhythmic or syntactic pause at the end of a line of poetry?
(a) End-stop.
(b) Phrase.
(c) Breath mark.
(d) Didactic moment.

8. Where does Hugo suggest placing a typed poem in order to feel pressure to work on it some more?
(a) In a drawer.
(b) On a mirror.
(c) On the wall.
(d) In a pocket.

9. Hugo suggests that with the accumulated losses of knowns, the imagination is faced with the problem of preserving the world through _____.
(a) Internalization.
(b) Calculation.
(c) Externalization.
(d) Reiteration.

10. What is the name of the bombardier that attended Stanford University for a year or two?
(a) Jeffrey Calhoun.
(b) John Seagal.
(c) Barry McCormack.
(d) Bob Mills.

11. Which famous poet does Hugo say informs and fills another body during the writing of a poem?
(a) Dickinson.
(b) Keats.
(c) Poe.
(d) Frost.

12. Hugo believes that any _____, no matter how melodramatic, is preferable to none.
(a) Triggering subject.
(b) Stance.
(c) Lingusitic style.
(d) Advantage.

13. Hugo says that creative writers are privileged because they can write _____.
(a) Declarative sentences.
(b) Standing on their heads.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Imperative sentenes.

14. Which punctuation mark is strictly banned by Hugo?
(a) Quotation marks.
(b) Exclamation points.
(c) Colons.
(d) Semicolons.

15. Where has Hugo worked that he says had little hostility between creative writers and academics?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Washington.
(c) Montana.
(d) Purdue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo guesses that ____ of his ex-students are now publishing.

2. In what year does Hugo go back to visit his World War II stomping grounds in Europe?

3. Which famous poet does Hugo say escapes from personality during the writing of a poem?

4. What is the term Hugo uses for an imperfect or partial rhyme?

5. When Hugo would hitchhike to Foggia, where does he sit alone drinking coffee, eating cookies, and listening to records?

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