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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 does Hugo work with Buzz Green?
(a) The postal service.
(b) The Boeing Company.
(c) Lockheed Martin.
(d) State Farm.

2. One assumption says that the churches are always _____.
(a) Extreme.
(b) Full.
(c) Empty.
(d) Dirty.

3. Who remarks that American poetry could not help but get better and better?
(a) David Wagoner.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Valery.
(d) Mark Strand.

4. According to Hugo, the imagination is a _____.
(a) Dictator.
(b) Friend.
(c) Relative.
(d) Cynic.

5. After Hugo reclaims his past in the war, he and his wife become tourists and visit _____ in Lecce.
(a) Libraries.
(b) Baroque churches.
(c) Fountains.
(d) Classical art galleries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other types of writing does Hugo say are already in English departments, making them the logical place to teach creative writing?

2. Which famous poet does Hugo say embodies a self superior to the self during the writing of a poem?

3. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.

4. Who does the British colonel remind Hugo of?

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

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