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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nuts and Bolts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.
(a) Their grades.
(b) Money.
(c) The reader.
(d) Critical acclaim.

2. Hugo says that for Roehtke, the rules are simply one way to help a poet get to _____.
(a) A master's degree.
(b) Publish.
(c) The gold.
(d) Heaven.

3. What color paper is, in Hugo's opinion, easy on the eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Pink.
(c) Beige.
(d) Yellow.

4. Which artist does Hugo think is interpreted as a weirdo when one first sees his paintings?
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) Vincent Van Gogh.
(c) Claude Monet.
(d) Hieronymus Bosch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the bush that grows wild in the Pacific Northwest that Hugo uses as a local noun?

2. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?

3. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.

4. Hugo states that some traditionalists seem to think that _____ exist to be solved for their own sake, as if the poet is an engineer.

5. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.

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