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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the opening sentence of “Distances,” the narrator suggests that what question had intrigued Geryon for much of his life?
(a) The question of sexuality.
(b) The question of family and its meaning.
(c) The question of the nature of time.
(d) The question of fate versus free will.

2. Where is the main door of the school described in "Justice"?
(a) On the south side.
(b) On the north side.
(c) On the east side.
(d) On the west side.

3. What is the sound of horses compared to in “Geryon’s War Record”?
(a) "Thunder clapping in the distance."
(b) "A freed shadow."
(c) "Roses being burned alive."
(d) "A volcano mid-eruption."

4. Herakles comments in “Walls” that all of Geryon's creative expressions reference what?
(a) Flying.
(b) His mother.
(c) Being imprisoned.
(d) His little red dog.

5. What is the described as the "unsavory aftermath" of Helen's sexual misconduct in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?
(a) World War II.
(b) The murder of Julius Caesar.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Fall of Troy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say that Geryon loved in the opening of “Total Things Known about Geryon”?

2. Where does Geryon encounter Herakles in "Change"?

3. What does Geryon do when he returns to his hotel in “Distances”?

4. What is the cup made from that the centaur offers Geryon in "Geryon's Weekend"?

5. In Appendix B: "The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros (Fragment 192 Poetae Melici Graeci)," the narrator says, "No you never came to" what location?

(see the answer key)

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