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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?
(a) Tuba.
(b) Flute.
(c) Piano.
(d) Trombone.

2. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Twelfth Night.

3. What is Buzz Green's previous profession?
(a) Symphony conductor.
(b) Jazz musician.
(c) Oil rig worker.
(d) Train conductor.

4. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.
(a) Convention bucking device.
(b) Ability to copy.
(c) Game face.
(d) Crap detector.

5. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.
(a) Clandestine behavior.
(b) Rigidity.
(c) Fluidity.
(d) Tenderness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo believes that a public poet must be more intelligent than the reader so his _____ doesn't get in the way.

2. Hugo believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.

3. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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