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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the bush that grows wild in the Pacific Northwest that Hugo uses as a local noun?
(a) Royal purple.
(b) Butterfly.
(c) Salmonberry.
(d) Salal.

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

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

4. What does Hugo call the tearing down of buildings, the building of new housing, etc., as being one problem for modern poets?
(a) Wholesale changes.
(b) Rapid dehumanization.
(c) Vapid consumerism.
(d) Class deterioration.

5. 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) Martha O'Driscoll.
(b) Greta Garbo.
(c) Betty Hutton.
(d) Jayne Mansfield.

6. Hugo guesses that ____ of his ex-students are now publishing.
(a) Over a hundred.
(b) Ten.
(c) Forty.
(d) All.

7. Hugo believes that worthwhile things can't be _____.
(a) Carried out.
(b) Forsaken.
(c) Defined.
(d) Justified.

8. Hugo's squadron is assigned to fly gasoline to a British Spitfire base in _____.
(a) Nice.
(b) Lyon.
(c) Paris.
(d) Cambria.

9. In which town does Hugo experience what his psychoanalyst calls a moment of surrender?
(a) Spinazzola.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Lyon.
(d) Hamburg.

10. Who does the British colonel remind Hugo of?
(a) John Wayne.
(b) W.C. Fields.
(c) Humphrey Bogart.
(d) Herbert Marshall.

11. Hugo prefers the _____ tone he employs to a lot of qualifiers when giving poets rules to write by.
(a) Dogmatic.
(b) Pedagogic.
(c) Contemplative.
(d) Axiomatic.

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

13. Where have three prostitutes set up shop a quarter of a mile from Hugo's squadron?
(a) An abandoned rail car.
(b) An ammunition shed.
(c) A hangar.
(d) A pumphouse.

14. Hugo is distrustful of Eliot and Roethke because late in their careers the announced that they were _____.
(a) Retiring.
(b) Happy.
(c) Poor.
(d) Jaded.

15. What is the maximum sentence length Hugo advises having in a poem?
(a) Seven words.
(b) Fifty words.
(c) Ten words.
(d) Seventeen words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the only celebrity that comes to visit Hugo's squadron during the war?

2. A suggestion Hugo makes is to end more than half the lines and more than two-thirds of the sentences on _____.

3. Where has Hugo worked that he says had little hostility between creative writers and academics?

4. What is the term Hugo uses for adding unnecessary words to a form?

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

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