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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. Which punctuation mark is strictly banned by Hugo?
(a) Colons.
(b) Semicolons.
(c) Quotation marks.
(d) Exclamation points.

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

3. If creative writing teachers are doing their jobs, Hugo says they are learning from their_____.
(a) Failures.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Students.
(d) Ancestors.

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

5. Hugo states that an act of imagination is an act of _____.
(a) Faith.
(b) God.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Self-acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hugo, _____ keeps alive a self deserving of rejection.

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

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

4. Which famous poet does Hugo say becomes someone else during the writing of a poem?

5. What word does Hugo say should only be used as a transitive verb for at least fifteen years?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Hugo say not to write with a pen?

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

4. Who is Bob Mills and what task is he assigned to perform?

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

6. How does Hugo describe teaching the student in a class who is not necessarily good at writing?

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

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

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

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

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