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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. When Hugo would hitchhike to Foggia, where does he sit alone drinking coffee, eating cookies, and listening to records?
(a) The USO club.
(b) The Red Cross.
(c) The officer's club.
(d) The army base.

2. Hugo believes that any _____, no matter how melodramatic, is preferable to none.
(a) Triggering subject.
(b) Advantage.
(c) Stance.
(d) Lingusitic style.

3. Hugo teaches that words love the _____ of people's minds.
(a) Sticky problems.
(b) Corny inhabitants.
(c) Malleability.
(d) Ridiculous areas.

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. The Boeing plant where Hugo works is on the bank of the _____ River.
(a) Skagit.
(b) Snake.
(c) Duwamish.
(d) Nooksack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.

2. What is poorly maintained in one assumption, causing only a few people to attend events there?

3. The grain elevator in one assumption is _____.

4. Hugo says that creative writers are privileged because they can write _____.

5. What is developed at Plant I that never gets off the ground because it couldn't compete with the existing car motors?

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