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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that Geryon loved in the opening of “Total Things Known about Geryon”?
(a) Horseback riding.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Gardening.
(d) Water.

2. Why is Geryon sent to his room in "Geryon's Parents"?
(a) For talking back to his father.
(b) For kicking the dog.
(c) For hitting his brother at the dinner table.
(d) For wearing a mask at the supper table.

3. What goddesss is describe as looking through the floor in "Meanwhilte in Heaven"?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Demeter.
(c) Atremis.
(d) Athena.

4. Who claimed that Stesichoros was the "Most Homeric of the lyric poets," according to the author in the introduction?
(a) Hermogenes.
(b) Suidas.
(c) Longinus.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

5. In the poem that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance,” what is said to keep "His never slumbering plan"?
(a) "The reticent volcano."
(b) "The winds of the coming storm."
(c) "The ashes of the forgotten."
(d) "His cold hands."

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of sports practice do Geryon's brother and father attend in "Tuesday"?

2. Who is cited with claiming that Helen made an object lesson of the poet Stesichoros in Appendix A: “Testimonia on the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen”?

3. What does Geryon touch inside his coat pocket outside the school in "Justice"?

4. Geryon's autobiography includes references to whose deaths in “Ideas”?

5. What kind of livestock does the narrator describe Geryon raising in “Geryon”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Geryon's camera represent symbolically in the novel?

2. How is Geryon's visit to the volcano explored metaphorically in Section 7?

3. What is significant about the quote that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance”?

4. What theme is explored in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?

5. Where is Herakles hometown? How is it described?

6. To whom is the Greek writer Stesichoros compared in “Red Meat: What Difference did Stesichoros Make?”

7. How is the motif of the color red explored in "Justice," "Each," and "Rhinestones"?

8. What are examples of foreshadowing seen in “Sex Question” through “Somnambula”?

9. What motif appears in “Screendoor”?

10. How are volcanoes explored metaphorically in Section 6?

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