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

2. What aspect of Reothke's teaching does Hugo find to be evidence of his cruelty?
(a) His finals.
(b) His tardiness.
(c) His slothful explanations.
(d) His critiques.

3. According to Hugo, _____ keeps alive a self deserving of rejection.
(a) Self-loathing.
(b) Self-pity.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Alcohol.

4. How many people are in jail in one assumption?
(a) Sixty people over sixty.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Half the town.

5. What large target does Hugo miss bombing?
(a) Brenner Pass.
(b) Bohlen.
(c) Hitler's country estate.
(d) Versaille.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.

2. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?

3. Which poet tells Hugo that he has a hard time breaking Roethke's hold on him?

4. People who hated the town left long ago and are wealthy in ____ in one assumption.

5. The Boeing plant where Hugo works is on the bank of the _____ River.

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