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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) Twelfth Night.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Macbeth.

2. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.
(a) Sounds.
(b) Meanings.
(c) Origins.
(d) Orientations.

3. What is Buzz Green's previous profession?
(a) Jazz musician.
(b) Train conductor.
(c) Oil rig worker.
(d) Symphony conductor.

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

5. Who says that poets don't take things as seriously as other people?
(a) Pound.
(b) Roethke.
(c) Auden.
(d) Yeats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that the earth takes its configurations from the _____.

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

3. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.

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

5. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.

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