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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. Why do Boeing employees call the squatter The Admiral?
(a) Because he always says, "Aye, aye captain!"
(b) Because he keeps a row boat in the garage.
(c) Because he talks about being in the Navy.
(d) Because he wears a yachting cap.

2. In World War II, Hugo is a bombardier based in _____.
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) Britain.

3. Who writes the book, Advice to a Young Poet?
(a) Lee Child.
(b) Llewelyn Powys.
(c) Jorgen Dixon.
(d) Samuel Butler.

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

5. Hugo feels that there is a tendency for literary professors to establish and maintain _____ over their students.
(a) Economic advantages.
(b) Absolutely no control.
(c) Strict control.
(d) Emotional advantages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yeats, Hopkins, Auden, Thomas, Kunitz, and Bogan are described by Hugo as having _____ as determined by Roethke when he read their work aloud.

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 _____.

3. The British colonel that Hugo meets in Europe on his tour of duty is what member of the British aristocracy?

4. What is it called when a poet restates the same idea in a different way?

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

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