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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?
(a) Because it opens up psychic channels.
(b) Because one has intense attachment to it.
(c) Because it works for him.
(d) Because it is free of personal association.

3. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?
(a) Chorus girls.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Babies.
(d) Large rats.

4. One assumption has the _____ being run by a kind man who lets kids in for free when nobody is looking.
(a) Swimming pool.
(b) Carnival.
(c) Penny arcade.
(d) Movie house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A suggestion Hugo makes is to end more than half the lines and more than two-thirds of the sentences on _____.

2. Hugo teaches that what type of words soften the impact of language?

3. Which poet does Hugo believes appears to be usual when he is, in fact, a near-perfect example of the unusual in that he is one of the best poets out there?

4. One of Hugo's assumptions states that the name of the triggering town must appear _____.

5. Hugo states that the earth takes its configurations from the _____.

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