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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. Where do people sit a lot in one assumption?
(a) In their cars at stoplights that don't work.
(b) On their sofas.
(c) On swings in the park.
(d) On their porches.

2. Hugo believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.
(a) Nemesis.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Place to avoid.
(d) Hometown.

3. What is the minimum sentence length Hugob advises having in a poem?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

4. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.
(a) Starvation.
(b) Piety.
(c) Madness.
(d) Devotion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the poetry term for a rhythmic or syntactic pause at the end of a line of poetry?

2. The town doctor in one of the assumptions is _____.

3. Who do the G.I.'s stomp and whistle for when she comes onscreen in the movie that Hugo says is worse than bombardier?

4. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.

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

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