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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hugo maintains that once the poet has a certain amount of _____, one can forget it in the act of writing.
(a) Raw talent.
(b) Formal training.
(c) Accumulated technique.
(d) Experience.

3. Hugo believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.
(a) Nemesis.
(b) Place to avoid.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Hometown.

4. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.
(a) Dictating.
(b) Evolved.
(c) Dying.
(d) Interesting.

5. Hugo thinks it is easier to write when you can ignore relative values and go with the _____ of words.
(a) Overall concept.
(b) Flow and thrust.
(c) Didacticism.
(d) Finer points.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.

3. In the case of the snake poem, Hugo thinks that the author got off the initiating subject _____.

4. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.

5. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.

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