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

2. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?
(a) Chorus girls.
(b) Babies.
(c) Large rats.
(d) Soldiers.

3. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.
(a) Ability to copy.
(b) Crap detector.
(c) Game face.
(d) Convention bucking device.

4. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.
(a) Auden.
(b) The author.
(c) Himself.
(d) Yeats.

5. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.
(a) God's will.
(b) The greater good.
(c) As a reminder.
(d) The words.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which artist does Hugo think is interpreted as a weirdo when one first sees his paintings?

2. Hugo says that if one is a private poet, then one's vocabulary is limited to one's _____.

3. Hugo states that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from _____.

4. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.

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

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