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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Hugo work with Buzz Green?
(a) The Boeing Company.
(b) The postal service.
(c) State Farm.
(d) Lockheed Martin.

2. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Twelfth Night.

3. Hugo believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.
(a) Teacher.
(b) Hometown.
(c) Place to avoid.
(d) Nemesis.

4. What era does Hugo say embodies sentimentality?
(a) The Neo-Classical era.
(b) The Victorian era.
(c) The Classical era.
(d) The Post-modern era.

5. Which person observes some mold and later cures gonorrhea?
(a) Sir Alexander Fleming.
(b) John George Alexander.
(c) Alexander Graham Bell.
(d) Marie Curie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which clever, witty writer is described by Hugo as being able to conform the music of poetry to truth effectively?

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

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

5. Hugo thinks it is easier to write when you can ignore relative values and go with the _____ of words.

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