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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo tells the poet not to worry about _____ when writing.
(a) Timing.
(b) Length.
(c) Word sounds.
(d) Morality.

2. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.
(a) As a reminder.
(b) God's will.
(c) The words.
(d) The greater good.

3. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.
(a) The reader.
(b) Their grades.
(c) Critical acclaim.
(d) Money.

4. According to Hugo, Valery says that when words are used to convey information, they _____.
(a) Dissolve.
(b) Become true.
(c) Correlate.
(d) Reanimate.

5. Hugo believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.
(a) Creative genius.
(b) Cognitive recall.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Real personal significance.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.

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

3. Hugo believes that a poet must take _____of a triggering town.

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?

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