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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. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.
(a) Orientations.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Meanings.
(d) Origins.

2. Hugo guesses that ____ of his ex-students are now publishing.
(a) Forty.
(b) Over a hundred.
(c) Ten.
(d) All.

3. Which famous poet does Hugo say escapes from personality during the writing of a poem?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Silverstein.
(c) Roethke.
(d) Eliot.

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

5. Hugo suggests that with the accumulated losses of knowns, the imagination is faced with the problem of preserving the world through _____.
(a) Internalization.
(b) Reiteration.
(c) Externalization.
(d) Calculation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the grocer's children live in one assumption?

2. Hugo suggests the poet finish the poem first, then worry about being _____.

3. Who taunts the squatter continually?

4. What color paper is, in Hugo's opinion, easy on the eyes?

5. What is the term Hugo uses for an imperfect or partial rhyme?

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