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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?
(a) Auden.
(b) Kittridge.
(c) Marvel.
(d) Herrick.

2. Which clever, witty writer is described by Hugo as being able to conform the music of poetry to truth effectively?
(a) Auden.
(b) Himself.
(c) Pound.
(d) Yeats.

3. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.
(a) Become arrogant.
(b) Burn their rough drafts.
(c) Use profanity.
(d) Become impotent.

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

5. Hugo advises that the hard work put in on the first poem is responsible for the _____ of the second.
(a) Longer length.
(b) Sudden ease.
(c) Problems.
(d) Lack of inspiration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.

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

3. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?

4. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.

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

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