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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. People who hated the town left long ago and are wealthy in ____ in one assumption.
(a) England.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Greece.
(d) South Africa.

2. Hugo thinks it is easier to write when you can ignore relative values and go with the _____ of words.
(a) Flow and thrust.
(b) Overall concept.
(c) Didacticism.
(d) Finer points.

3. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?
(a) Herrick.
(b) Kittridge.
(c) Marvel.
(d) Auden.

4. Who taunts the squatter continually?
(a) Wild dogs.
(b) Boeing guards.
(c) Competing homeless people.
(d) The city police.

5. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.
(a) Need for approval.
(b) Taste for danger.
(c) Id.
(d) Moral sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which short story of Hemingway's has the protagonist, Krebs?

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

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

4. Which short story of Faulkner's has the protagonist, Snopes?

5. What city does Hugo visit again in April, 1964?

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