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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. Which profession does Hugo believe should be able to retire in twenty years with a full pension like policemen, firemen, and service personnel?
(a) Bankers.
(b) Poets.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Fiction writers.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that formal verse can help a young poet locate things to say, and can also _____ him to say things he wouldn't say.

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

3. What city does Hugo visit again in April, 1964?

4. Which punctuation mark is strictly banned by Hugo?

5. Whose "albatross" does Hugo mention when speaking of the poetry student's ability to fly?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hugo describe teaching the student in a class who is not necessarily good at writing?

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

3. What is the curse of creative writing courses as seen by Hugo at universities?

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

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

6. Describe Pound's relationship to Yeats.

7. What does Hugo say a poet should do when a poem is finished?

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

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

10. Describe Hugo's analogy of the mask and how it changes as the poet progresses.

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