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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.
(a) Relationships.
(b) Failures.
(c) Art work.
(d) Jobs.

3. Hugo teaches that one way of getting into the world of the imagination is to focus on the play rather than the _____ of words.
(a) Usage.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Context.
(d) Meaning.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.

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

3. When writing a poem, what does Hugo suggest leaves a person more options?

4. Which person observes some mold and later cures gonorrhea?

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

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