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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) State Farm.
(c) Lockheed Martin.
(d) The Boeing Company.

2. Hugo says that creative writers are privileged because they can write _____.
(a) Declarative sentences.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Standing on their heads.
(d) Imperative sentenes.

3. Who is Hugo's creative writing teacher at West Seattle High School?
(a) Jonathon Baker Reese.
(b) Anne Johnstone.
(c) Eliot Renner.
(d) Belle McKensie.

4. Where is Captain Joel O. Moe from?
(a) Maryland.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) North Dakota.

5. What color paper is, in Hugo's opinion, easy on the eyes?
(a) Pink.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Beige.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo tells the poet not to worry about _____ when writing.

2. Which poet does Hugo believes appears to be usual when he is, in fact, a near-perfect example of the unusual in that he is one of the best poets out there?

3. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?

4. Hugo suggests that with the accumulated losses of knowns, the imagination is faced with the problem of preserving the world through _____.

5. According to Hugo, Valery says that when words are used to convey information, they _____.

(see the answer key)

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