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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hugo, _____ keeps alive a self deserving of rejection.
(a) Self-pity.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Alcohol.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Hugo that the imagination has an impulse to create unknowns out of knowns?

2. Hugo's squadron is assigned to fly gasoline to a British Spitfire base in _____.

3. What is the poetry term for a rhythmic or syntactic pause at the end of a line of poetry?

4. Where is Captain Joel O. Moe from?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hugo sometimes feel that he is perverse?

2. Why is acclaim considered by Hugo to be dangerous to the poet?

3. How does Auden express his disdain for competitiveness among writers?

4. Why does Hugo say that Cerignola has a bad reputation in Italy?

5. According to Hugo, why are the poet's feelings about himself influential to his writing?

6. What is the atmosphere between the literature and creative writing departments at Montana as described by Hugo?

7. Why does Hugo say to take emotional possession of a few words?

8. Why does Hugo say not to write with a pen?

9. Who is Bob Mills and what task is he assigned to perform?

10. How does Hugo feel about the British colonel and why?

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