The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo suggests that with the accumulated losses of knowns, the imagination is faced with the problem of preserving the world through _____.
(a) Externalization.
(b) Reiteration.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Calculation.

2. In the Hugo's opinion, a poet must have a streak of _____.
(a) Luck.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Genius.
(d) Arrogance.

3. Whose coarse teasing and ridicule does Hugo say the poet must endure to be his beautiful self?
(a) Philistine sailors'.
(b) Uneducated fools'.
(c) The lower self's.
(d) Dynastic youth's.

4. Hugo feels that there is a tendency for literary professors to establish and maintain _____ over their students.
(a) Strict control.
(b) Economic advantages.
(c) Emotional advantages.
(d) Absolutely no control.

5. What is the name of the only celebrity that comes to visit Hugo's squadron during the war?
(a) Hope Daniels.
(b) Joe Lewis.
(c) Bob Hope.
(d) Jerry Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?

2. Hugo states that a Snopes poet obviously finds conservatism _____.

3. What do the people in one assumption do to ward off boredom?

4. What does Hugo say is the most important feeling a poet has?

5. In which town does Hugo experience what his psychoanalyst calls a moment of surrender?

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