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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 word does Hugo say should only be used as a transitive verb for at least fifteen years?
(a) Envy.
(b) Need.
(c) Hate.
(d) Love.

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

3. What other types of writing does Hugo say are already in English departments, making them the logical place to teach creative writing?
(a) Technical and dramatic.
(b) Critical and expository.
(c) Conceptual and fictional.
(d) Comedic and journalistic.

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

5. Who is Hugo's creative writing teacher at West Seattle High School?
(a) Eliot Renner.
(b) Jonathon Baker Reese.
(c) Belle McKensie.
(d) Anne Johnstone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Hugo worked that he says had little hostility between creative writers and academics?

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

3. Which punctuation mark is strictly banned by Hugo?

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

5. Hugo states that a Snopes poet obviously finds conservatism _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is blank white paper not recommended for writing poetry by Hugo?

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