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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo states that when he was in graduate school, a published scholar who wrote clearly was referred to as a _____.
(a) Fascist.
(b) Popularizer.
(c) Philistine.
(d) Communist.

2. Hugo suggests that if one wants to change what is on the page, try using the same words and play with the _____.
(a) Capitalization.
(b) Punctuation.
(c) Spelling.
(d) Syntax.

3. Hugo observes that the three prostitutes look so scroungy that one might contract VD just ____.
(a) Looking at their photo.
(b) Walking past them.
(c) Touching their doorknob.
(d) Saying hello.

4. How many pencils does Hugo recommend sharpening to have on hand to write with?
(a) Ten.
(b) One.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

8. Who is the creative writing teacher credited for teaching Eliot, Williams, Hemingway, and Yeats?
(a) Thompson.
(b) Pound.
(c) Roehtke.
(d) Valery.

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

10. Whose "albatross" does Hugo mention when speaking of the poetry student's ability to fly?
(a) Constantine's.
(b) Mallarme's.
(c) Baudelaire's.
(d) Voltaire's

11. What is it called when a poet restates the same idea in a different way?
(a) Being clear.
(b) Being sarcastic.
(c) Being clever.
(d) Being redundant.

12. Which famous poet does Hugo say becomes someone else during the writing of a poem?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Auden.
(c) Lowell.
(d) Neruda.

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

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

15. Who does Hugo say proposes that all literary teachers take creative writing?
(a) W.B. Yeats.
(b) Ezra Pound.
(c) John Ericksson.
(d) George Garrett.

Short Answer Questions

1. If creative writing teachers are doing their jobs, Hugo says they are learning from their_____.

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

3. Who do the G.I.'s stomp and whistle for when she comes onscreen in the movie that Hugo says is worse than bombardier?

4. Hugo has heard academics refer to popular teachers as _____.

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

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