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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says that poets don't take things as seriously as other people?
(a) Auden.
(b) Pound.
(c) Roethke.
(d) Yeats.

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

3. Where does Hugo work with Buzz Green?
(a) Lockheed Martin.
(b) The Boeing Company.
(c) State Farm.
(d) The postal service.

4. In the poem by Ghiselin, the snake's dwelling is that of a _____.
(a) Horny toad.
(b) Gopher.
(c) Another snake.
(d) Prairie dog.

5. Which artist does Hugo think is interpreted as a weirdo when one first sees his paintings?
(a) Claude Monet.
(b) Vincent Van Gogh.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Hieronymus Bosch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The purpose of the triggering town is to serve as a _____ for the poem.

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

4. Yeats is noted by Hugo as saying that, "as a writer, your most important arguments are with _____".

5. When writing a poem, what does Hugo suggest leaves a person more options?

(see the answer key)

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