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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do Herakles, Ancash, and Geryon plan to travel to the volcano in “Eyewitnesses”?
2. Where do Herakles and Geryon sit with Herakles' grandmother when they return to his home in “Memory Burn”?
3. The opening sentence of “Kiss” suggests that "a healthy volcano is an exercise in" what?
4. Stesichoros claims that he enjoyed seeing until what year in “Interview (Stesichoros)”?
5. What does Geryon have in his lap as he falls asleep in “Aeroplane”?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the setting described in “Huaraz”?
2. How is volcano imagery employed in “Kiss”?
3. What is foreshadowed through the discussion of lava in "AA"?
4. What memories come to Geryon in “Tango”?
5. What motifs appear in “Slopes”? How are they introduced?
6. Where in the novel does the climax occur?
7. What is significant about the reference to Helen in “Interview (Stesichoros)”?
8. How do the soldiers describe the volcano in “Photographs: I Am A Beast”?
9. What does the flour represent in “The Flashes in Which A Man Possesses Himself”?
10. How have Geryon's circumstances changed in Section 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the encounter between Geryon and the centaur. What do you think is foreshadowed by this encounter? How is the centaur described? What do you think the centaur represents metaphorically in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
How is Geryon's character introduced in the narrative? How old is Geryon when his character is introduced in the first poems from “Red Meat: Fragments of Stesichoros”? What does Geryon look like?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the story of Stesichoros being blinded by Helen of Troy. What caused Helen to blind Stesichoros? How did Stesichoros reverse his fate? What arguments are made regarding this story in Autobiography of Red?
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