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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. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?
(a) Tuba.
(b) Flute.
(c) Piano.
(d) Trombone.

2. Hugo states that formal verse can help a young poet locate things to say, and can also _____ him to say things he wouldn't say.
(a) Discourage.
(b) Forbid.
(c) Obligate.
(d) Encourage.

3. What is it called when a poet restates the same idea in a different way?
(a) Being redundant.
(b) Being sarcastic.
(c) Being clear.
(d) Being clever.

4. In one of Hugo's assumptions, _____ at the farmer's market is punishable by death.
(a) Bargaining.
(b) Eating mushrooms.
(c) Selling corn.
(d) Stealing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.

3. What aspect of Reothke's teaching does Hugo find to be evidence of his cruelty?

4. The surrounding country in one assumption is _____.

5. Hugo's squadron is assigned to fly gasoline to a British Spitfire base in _____.

(see the answer key)

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