The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing Quiz Questions | Quiz: Statements of Faith

Quiz: Statements of Faith

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. Which short story of Faulkner's has the protagonist, Snopes?
a) "Jealousy".
b) "Barn Burning".
c) "Mirrors of Charle Street".
d) "Home".

2. Who tells Hugo that the imagination has an impulse to create unknowns out of knowns?
a) Theodore Roethke.
b) Alan Ginsberg.
c) Walt Whitman.
d) Madeline De Frees.

3. Which famous poet does Hugo name as having the notion of the mask during the writing of a poem?
a) Plath.
b) Yeats.
c) Whitman.
d) Cummings.

4. Which short story of Hemingway's has the protagonist, Krebs?
a) "Summer People".
b) An African Story".
c) "The Last Good Country".
d) "Soldier's Home".

5. Which famous poet does Hugo say becomes someone else during the writing...
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