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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 are the women doing by the side of the road when Geryon, Herakles, and Ancash pass them in the end of “Car”?
(a) Smoking cigarettes.
(b) Running for the border.
(c) Reading magazines.
(d) Chasing a dog.

2. What is Geryon doing when the phone rings in the beginning of “Tunnel”?
(a) He is playing guitar.
(b) He is writing.
(c) He is reading.
(d) He is packing.

3. What does the yellowbeard lecture on in “Slopes”?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Theology.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Skepticism.

4. What is Herakles said to smell of in “Kiss”?
(a) Blueberries.
(b) Jasmines.
(c) Motor oil.
(d) Leather.

5. In what city is Ancash's mother's home?
(a) Santiago.
(b) Bogota.
(c) Lima.
(d) Buenos Aires.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Geryon, Herakles, and Ancash traveling in “Gladys”?

2. Where is the particular kind of lava called "aa" described in “AA”?

3. Stesichoros claims that he enjoyed seeing until what year in “Interview (Stesichoros)”?

4. What day of the week is described in the opening of “Roof”?

5. What is described in the photograph in the opening line of “Photographs: The Meek”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the central conflict in “Photographs: Like and Not Like”?

2. What do Geryon and Herakles' grandmother discuss in “Memory Burn”?

3. What memories come to Geryon in “Tango”?

4. What is the primary subject of “Photographs: The Meek”?

5. What does the title of the poem “Gladys” refer to?

6. What is significant about the yellowbeard in Autobiography of Red?

7. What does Geryon's photograph represent in “Distances”?

8. What is significant about the name of the volcano that Geryon goes to visit with Ancash, his mother, and Herakles?

9. Who is Lazer? How is his character introduced?

10. Who is Ancash? How is this character introduced?

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