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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo believes that any _____, no matter how melodramatic, is preferable to none.
(a) Lingusitic style.
(b) Stance.
(c) Triggering subject.
(d) Advantage.

2. What contest do the former students of Hugo, Mike Ryan and Maura Stanton, win?
(a) Yale Series of Young Poets.
(b) Harvard Young Poets' Society.
(c) Brick & Mortar Review.
(d) Boston Review.

3. What is the name of the bombardier that attended Stanford University for a year or two?
(a) Bob Mills.
(b) Barry McCormack.
(c) John Seagal.
(d) Jeffrey Calhoun.

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

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

6. Which short story of Faulkner's has the protagonist, Snopes?
(a) "Jealousy".
(b) "Mirrors of Charle Street".
(c) "Barn Burning".
(d) "Home".

7. Hugo observes that the three prostitutes look so scroungy that one might contract VD just ____.
(a) Saying hello.
(b) Walking past them.
(c) Touching their doorknob.
(d) Looking at their photo.

8. What is the poetry term for a rhythmic or syntactic pause at the end of a line of poetry?
(a) Phrase.
(b) Breath mark.
(c) Didactic moment.
(d) End-stop.

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

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

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

12. Hugo guesses that ____ of his ex-students are now publishing.
(a) Forty.
(b) Over a hundred.
(c) All.
(d) Ten.

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

14. What city does Hugo visit again in April, 1964?
(a) Cerignola.
(b) Leicester..
(c) Milan.
(d) Munich.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What color paper is, in Hugo's opinion, easy on the eyes?

3. What is the name of the supply officer that doesn't supply Hugo's squadron with enough blankets?

4. What does Hugo say that Auden believes is the nemesis of American writers?

5. Who is the creative writing teacher credited for teaching Eliot, Williams, Hemingway, and Yeats?

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