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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 wears a yachting cap.
(b) Because he always says, "Aye, aye captain!"
(c) Because he keeps a row boat in the garage.
(d) Because he talks about being in the Navy.

2. Where have three prostitutes set up shop a quarter of a mile from Hugo's squadron?
(a) A hangar.
(b) An abandoned rail car.
(c) An ammunition shed.
(d) A pumphouse.

3. Hugo states that a poet is seldom hard-up for _____.
(a) Advice.
(b) Enthusiastic praise.
(c) Mental disease.
(d) Problems.

4. What does Hugo call the tearing down of buildings, the building of new housing, etc., as being one problem for modern poets?
(a) Vapid consumerism.
(b) Rapid dehumanization.
(c) Wholesale changes.
(d) Class deterioration.

5. Roethke is fond of quoting whose idea of "systematic derangement of the senses"?
(a) Mallarme's.
(b) Williams'.
(c) Sartre's.
(d) Rimbaud's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?

2. Hugo says that "C" doesn't believe in _____ because people who don't have prestigious positions don't count as much as he does.

3. Hugo believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.

4. What poem does Hugo describe as being "not good Hopkins"?

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

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