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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Triggering Town.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.
(a) Become impotent.
(b) Burn their rough drafts.
(c) Become arrogant.
(d) Use profanity.

2. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.
(a) Himself.
(b) The author.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Auden.

3. Hugo believes that a poet must take _____of a triggering town.
(a) Care.
(b) Total control.
(c) Emotional possession.
(d) Stock.

4. Which clever, witty writer is described by Hugo as being able to conform the music of poetry to truth effectively?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Auden.
(c) Himself.
(d) Pound.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo says that if one is a private poet, then one's vocabulary is limited to one's _____.

2. Hugo believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.

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

4. Hugo states that the earth takes its configurations from the _____.

5. According to Hugo, the imagination is a _____.

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