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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is noted about the fruit bowl in “Fruit Bowl”?
(a) It has been stolen.
(b) It is always filled with apples.
(c) It is always empty.
(d) It is always full of 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. The poem that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance” concludes with the lines, "The only secret people keep / Is" what?
(a) "Immortality."
(b) "Truth."
(c) "Betrayal."
(d) "Nightmares."

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

5. In "Grooming," the opening sentence describes living childhood close to what?
(a) The sea.
(b) The desert.
(c) The forest.
(d) The sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is compared to "the sleep of the just" in "Each"?

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

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

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

5. Where is the main door of the school described in "Justice"?

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