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

2. According to Hugo, Valery says that when words are used to convey information, they _____.
(a) Dissolve.
(b) Become true.
(c) Correlate.
(d) Reanimate.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?

2. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.

3. According to Hugo, the imagination is a _____.

4. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.

5. What does Hugo say seldom happens to writers who don't work at it?

(see the answer key)

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