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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Defense of Creative-Writing Classes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo says that creative writers are privileged because they can write _____.
(a) Fiction.
(b) Declarative sentences.
(c) Imperative sentenes.
(d) Standing on their heads.

2. In one assumption, Hugo is an _____ who returns to the town.
(a) Old farmhand.
(b) Action star.
(c) Army deserter.
(d) Outcast.

3. What aspect of Reothke's teaching does Hugo find to be evidence of his cruelty?
(a) His critiques.
(b) His slothful explanations.
(c) His tardiness.
(d) His finals.

4. Hugo suggests the poet finish the poem first, then worry about being _____.
(a) Valid.
(b) Judged by his peers.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Right or sane.

5. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.
(a) Thinking big.
(b) Joining NASA.
(c) Running for president.
(d) Philosphy or social criticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo believes that a public poet must be more intelligent than the reader so his _____ doesn't get in the way.

2. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.

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

4. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.

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

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