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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 love.
(b) How he feels about loss.
(c) How he feels about the world.
(d) How he feels about himself.

2. What city does Hugo visit again in April, 1964?
(a) Leicester..
(b) Munich.
(c) Cerignola.
(d) Milan.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hugo suggest placing a typed poem in order to feel pressure to work on it some more?

2. A suggestion Hugo makes is to end more than half the lines and more than two-thirds of the sentences on _____.

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

4. What color paper is, in Hugo's opinion, easy on the eyes?

5. Whose coarse teasing and ridicule does Hugo say the poet must endure to be his beautiful self?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is it that Hugo and his wife are able to go to Italy?

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

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

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

7. What does Hugo see as the inherent flaw in the hiring of some writing teachers?

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

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

10. What is Hugo's definition of conservatism and how does it affect a poet's writing?

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