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

2. Yeats is noted by Hugo as saying that, "as a writer, your most important arguments are with _____".
(a) Yourself.
(b) Your teachers.
(c) God.
(d) Your loved ones.

3. Who is Hugo's creative writing teacher at West Seattle High School?
(a) Anne Johnstone.
(b) Eliot Renner.
(c) Jonathon Baker Reese.
(d) Belle McKensie.

4. Hugo says that "C" doesn't believe in _____ because people who don't have prestigious positions don't count as much as he does.
(a) Communism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) God.

5. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.
(a) As a reminder.
(b) God's will.
(c) The greater good.
(d) The words.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.

2. In the case of the snake poem, Hugo thinks that the author got off the initiating subject _____.

3. Who says "...the more I practice, the luckier I get."?

4. Hugo believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.

5. The Boeing plant where Hugo works is on the bank of the _____ River.

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