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

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

3. Hugo's squadron is assigned to fly gasoline to a British Spitfire base in _____.
(a) Cambria.
(b) Paris.
(c) Nice.
(d) Lyon.

4. In World War II, Hugo is a bombardier based in _____.
(a) Germany.
(b) Italy.
(c) Britain.
(d) France.

5. Who does Hugo say proposes that all literary teachers take creative writing?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) George Garrett.
(c) John Ericksson.
(d) W.B. Yeats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous poet does Hugo name as having the notion of the mask during the writing of a poem?

2. Where is Captain Joel O. Moe from?

3. Hugo has heard academics refer to popular teachers as _____.

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

5. In what year does Hugo go back to visit his World War II stomping grounds in Europe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Pound's relationship to Yeats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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