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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 believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.
(a) Creative genius.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Real personal significance.
(d) Cognitive recall.

2. 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.

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

4. Hugo states that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from _____.
(a) Plagiarism.
(b) Convention.
(c) The initiating subject.
(d) Writer's block.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.

2. In the Hugo's opinion, a poet must have a streak of _____.

3. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?

4. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.

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

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