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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which famous poet does Hugo say embodies a self superior to the self during the writing of a poem?
(a) Ginsberg.
(b) Hardy.
(c) Valery.
(d) Roethke.

3. Which famous poet does Hugo say escapes from personality during the writing of a poem?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Roethke.
(d) Silverstein.

4. Where have three prostitutes set up shop a quarter of a mile from Hugo's squadron?
(a) A hangar.
(b) An abandoned rail car.
(c) A pumphouse.
(d) An ammunition shed.

5. Hugo believes that worthwhile things can't be _____.
(a) Carried out.
(b) Justified.
(c) Defined.
(d) Forsaken.

6. Which short story of Hemingway's has the protagonist, Krebs?
(a) An African Story".
(b) "The Last Good Country".
(c) "Summer People".
(d) "Soldier's Home".

7. Hugo feels that the English language is deficient in _____.
(a) Effective homophones.
(b) Honest adjectives.
(c) Good full rhymes.
(d) Synonyms.

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

9. Who does the British colonel remind Hugo of?
(a) John Wayne.
(b) Humphrey Bogart.
(c) Herbert Marshall.
(d) W.C. Fields.

10. What large target does Hugo miss bombing?
(a) Hitler's country estate.
(b) Bohlen.
(c) Brenner Pass.
(d) Versaille.

11. Hugo prefers the _____ tone he employs to a lot of qualifiers when giving poets rules to write by.
(a) Pedagogic.
(b) Dogmatic.
(c) Contemplative.
(d) Axiomatic.

12. Where has Hugo worked that he says had little hostility between creative writers and academics?
(a) Washington.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Montana.
(d) Purdue.

13. Which famous poet does Hugo say becomes someone else during the writing of a poem?
(a) Lowell.
(b) Auden.
(c) Wilde.
(d) Neruda.

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

15. What is it called when a poet restates the same idea in a different way?
(a) Being clever.
(b) Being redundant.
(c) Being clear.
(d) Being sarcastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do academic professors attribute the sudden popularity of creative writing classes, according to Hugo?

2. Hugo suggests that with the accumulated losses of knowns, the imagination is faced with the problem of preserving the world through _____.

3. Hugo feels that there is a tendency for literary professors to establish and maintain _____ over their students.

4. Hugo guesses that ____ of his ex-students are now publishing.

5. Hugo suggests that if one wants to change what is on the page, try using the same words and play with the _____.

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