The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Defense of Creative-Writing Classes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo sits home on Saturday nights _____ in one assumption.
(a) Drawing comic book characters.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Listening to the radio.
(d) Eating fast food.

2. The town doctor in one of the assumptions is _____.
(a) A gifted healer.
(b) Dying of cancer.
(c) Corrupt and incompetent.
(d) Also the town drunk.

3. Hugo teaches that one way of getting into the world of the imagination is to focus on the play rather than the _____ of words.
(a) Syntax.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Context.
(d) Usage.

4. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.
(a) Running for president.
(b) Joining NASA.
(c) Philosphy or social criticism.
(d) Thinking big.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the world of imagination, Hugo believes that all things _____.

2. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.

3. Where do the grocer's children live in one assumption?

4. Who is the creative writing teacher credited for teaching Eliot, Williams, Hemingway, and Yeats?

5. What is poorly maintained in one assumption, causing only a few people to attend events there?

(see the answer key)

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