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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what setting does Geryon leave with the centaur in the beginning of "Geryon's Weekend"?
(a) The bar.
(b) The church.
(c) The garden.
(d) The maze.

2. What author is described in the introduction as summing up Picasso in saying, "This one was working"?
(a) William Butler Yeats.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

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

4. What word refers to a poem in which the poet retracts a view or sentiment expressed in a former poem?
(a) Proscenium.
(b) Epitheton.
(c) Incubus.
(d) Palinode.

5. Who abducted Helen, according to mythology?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hermogenes.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Menelaus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drink does the centaur give to Geryon in "Geryon's Weekend"?

2. In “Geryon,” the narrator says, "Geryon's dream began red then slipped out of the vat and" what?

3. The narrator says in the poetic excerpt of Appendix B: "The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros (Fragment 192 Poetae Melici Graeci)," "No you never went on the" what?

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

5. Who is described as wearing rhinestones in "Rhinestones"?

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