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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. How much snow hits the town every year in one assumption?
(a) Twenty feet.
(b) None.
(c) Seventy-seven inches.
(d) Four inches.

2. Hugo believes that worthwhile things can't be _____.
(a) Forsaken.
(b) Justified.
(c) Defined.
(d) Carried out.

3. Where has Hugo worked that he says had little hostility between creative writers and academics?
(a) Purdue.
(b) Washington.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Montana.

4. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.
(a) Plagiarism.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Schmaltz.
(d) Disguise.

5. Who tells Hugo that the imagination has an impulse to create unknowns out of knowns?
(a) Theodore Roethke.
(b) Madeline De Frees.
(c) Alan Ginsberg.
(d) Walt Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.

2. Hugo believes that, like The Admiral and his wife, we are all going into the dark, but a few of us are honest enough to scream back at the _____.

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

4. Where is Captain Joel O. Moe from?

5. What is the name of the supply officer that doesn't supply Hugo's squadron with enough blankets?

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