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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. What does Hugo say is the most important feeling a poet has?
(a) How he feels about loss.
(b) How he feels about the world.
(c) How he feels about love.
(d) How he feels about himself.

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

4. What contest do the former students of Hugo, Mike Ryan and Maura Stanton, win?
(a) Brick & Mortar Review.
(b) Harvard Young Poets' Society.
(c) Boston Review.
(d) Yale Series of Young Poets.

5. Hugo has heard academics refer to popular teachers as _____.
(a) Entertainers.
(b) Communists.
(c) Radicals.
(d) Enablers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that when he was in graduate school, a published scholar who wrote clearly was referred to as a _____.

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

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

5. What is the term Hugo uses for an imperfect or partial rhyme?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Hugo recommend that the poet carry with him at all times and why?

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

10. Describe Pound's relationship to Yeats.

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