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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How Poets Make a Living.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is poorly maintained in one assumption, causing only a few people to attend events there?
(a) The college.
(b) The high school gymnasium.
(c) The ballpark.
(d) The performing arts center.

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

3. Hugo thinks it is easier to write when you can ignore relative values and go with the _____ of words.
(a) Flow and thrust.
(b) Didacticism.
(c) Overall concept.
(d) Finer points.

4. 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) Greta Garbo.
(c) Jayne Mansfield.
(d) Martha O'Driscoll.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo suggests the poet finish the poem first, then worry about being _____.

2. Hugo sits home on Saturday nights _____ in one assumption.

3. What poem does Hugo describe as being "not good Hopkins"?

4. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.

5. One assumption says that the churches are always _____.

(see the answer key)

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