The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the minimum sentence length Hugob advises having in a poem?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

3. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?
(a) Piano.
(b) Flute.
(c) Trombone.
(d) Tuba.

4. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.
(a) Schmaltz.
(b) Disguise.
(c) Plagiarism.
(d) Surprise.

5. A suggestion Hugo makes is to end more than half the lines and more than two-thirds of the sentences on _____.
(a) A dangling participle.
(b) A multisyllabic word.
(c) Words of one syllable.
(d) An exclamation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that formal verse can help a young poet locate things to say, and can also _____ him to say things he wouldn't say.

2. The purpose of the triggering town is to serve as a _____ for the poem.

3. One assumption says that the churches are always _____.

4. The hermit in one of Hugo's assumptions eats mostly _____.

5. Which artist does Hugo think is interpreted as a weirdo when one first sees his paintings?

(see the answer key)

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