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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where have three prostitutes set up shop a quarter of a mile from Hugo's squadron?

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

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 believes that any _____, no matter how melodramatic, is preferable to none.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Pound's relationship to Yeats.

3. Why does Hugo believe that Roethke seeks out wealthy companionship during his last years?

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

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

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

7. How is "grammarphobia" a problem in writing, according to the author?

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

9. How do the children in Barletta react to Hugo and Mills?

10. What is the conclusion Hugo makes regarding the Ph.D. system in literature?

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