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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 contest do the former students of Hugo, Mike Ryan and Maura Stanton, win?
(a) Harvard Young Poets' Society.
(b) Boston Review.
(c) Brick & Mortar Review.
(d) Yale Series of Young Poets.

2. Hugo states that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from _____.
(a) Writer's block.
(b) The initiating subject.
(c) Convention.
(d) Plagiarism.

3. To whom at Boeing does The Admiral address two letters concerning his eviction?
(a) Mr. C.
(b) Mr. D.
(c) Mr. Boeing.
(d) The author.

4. Yeats, Hopkins, Auden, Thomas, Kunitz, and Bogan are described by Hugo as having _____ as determined by Roethke when he read their work aloud.
(a) Distinct use of slang.
(b) Good ears.
(c) Uncommon grace.
(d) An artist's ability to paint with words.

5. One assumption has the _____ being run by a kind man who lets kids in for free when nobody is looking.
(a) Carnival.
(b) Swimming pool.
(c) Movie house.
(d) Penny arcade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.

2. On which day of the week does the wind stop blowing in one assumption?

3. Hugo says that "C" is a person who hides his emotions _____.

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

5. Hugo feels that true integrity is often willfully equated with _____.

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