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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. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?
(a) Large rats.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Chorus girls.
(d) Babies.

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

3. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.
(a) Crap detector.
(b) Convention bucking device.
(c) Ability to copy.
(d) Game face.

4. On which day of the week does the wind stop blowing in one assumption?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Monday.

5. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?
(a) Because it works for him.
(b) Because one has intense attachment to it.
(c) Because it opens up psychic channels.
(d) Because it is free of personal association.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.

2. Hugo believes that a poet must take _____of a triggering town.

3. A suggestion Hugo makes is to end more than half the lines and more than two-thirds of the sentences on _____.

4. What is Buzz Green's previous profession?

5. In the Hugo's opinion, a poet must have a streak of _____.

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