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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tells Hugo that the imagination has an impulse to create unknowns out of knowns?
(a) Madeline De Frees.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Theodore Roethke.
(d) Alan Ginsberg.

3. Where is Captain Joel O. Moe from?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Maryland.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) North Dakota.

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

5. If creative writing teachers are doing their jobs, Hugo says they are learning from their_____.
(a) Ancestors.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Students.
(d) Failures.

6. In what year does Hugo go back to visit his World War II stomping grounds in Europe?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1973.

7. What is the term Hugo uses for an imperfect or partial rhyme?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Half rhyme.
(c) Oblique rhyme.
(d) Off rhyme.

8. Hugo states that an act of imagination is an act of _____.
(a) Self-acceptance.
(b) Faith.
(c) God.
(d) Revenge.

9. What is the name of the only celebrity that comes to visit Hugo's squadron during the war?
(a) Bob Hope.
(b) Hope Daniels.
(c) Jerry Lewis.
(d) Joe Lewis.

10. What is the minimum sentence length Hugob advises having in a poem?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

11. Who do the G.I.'s stomp and whistle for when she comes onscreen in the movie that Hugo says is worse than bombardier?
(a) Jayne Mansfield.
(b) Betty Hutton.
(c) Martha O'Driscoll.
(d) Greta Garbo.

12. Which famous poet does Hugo say escapes from personality during the writing of a poem?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Roethke.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Silverstein.

13. Which famous poet does Hugo say embodies a self superior to the self during the writing of a poem?
(a) Hardy.
(b) Roethke.
(c) Ginsberg.
(d) Valery.

14. When Hugo would hitchhike to Foggia, where does he sit alone drinking coffee, eating cookies, and listening to records?
(a) The army base.
(b) The USO club.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) The officer's club.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that when he was in graduate school, a published scholar who wrote clearly was referred to as a _____.

2. Who is Hugo's creative writing teacher at West Seattle High School?

3. What is it called when a poet restates the same idea in a different way?

4. What does Hugo call the tearing down of buildings, the building of new housing, etc., as being one problem for modern poets?

5. Which famous poet does Hugo say becomes someone else during the writing of a poem?

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