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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 is distrustful of Eliot and Roethke because late in their careers the announced that they were _____.
(a) Poor.
(b) Happy.
(c) Retiring.
(d) Jaded.

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

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?
(a) Jayne Mansfield.
(b) Betty Hutton.
(c) Martha O'Driscoll.
(d) Greta Garbo.

4. Hugo says to hope hard to always fall short of _____.
(a) Success.
(b) Popularity.
(c) Failure.
(d) Mastery.

5. What does Hugo call the tearing down of buildings, the building of new housing, etc., as being one problem for modern poets?
(a) Vapid consumerism.
(b) Class deterioration.
(c) Wholesale changes.
(d) Rapid dehumanization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the maximum sentence length Hugo advises having in a poem?

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

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

4. Hugo's squadron is assigned to fly gasoline to a British Spitfire base in _____.

5. What is the name of the only celebrity that comes to visit Hugo's squadron during the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Auden express his disdain for competitiveness among writers?

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

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

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

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