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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the waitress ask when she brings the food in ”Grooming"?
(a) She asks if Geryon and Herakles are on a school trip.
(b) She asks if Geryon and Herakles are brothers.
(c) She asks if Geryon and Herakles are newlyweds.
(d) She asks if Geryon and Herakles are old enough to drink.

2. What is printed on the t-shirt that Geryon wears in “Space and Time”?
(a) "No More Mud."
(b) "Silent Night."
(c) "Truth."
(d) "God Loves Lola."

3. What word from “Geryon's Parents" refers to a Lilin-demon in male form who lies upon women in order to engage in sexual activity with them?
(a) Epitheton.
(b) Proscenium.
(c) Succubus.
(d) Incubus.

4. 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?
(a) "Gray clouds."
(b) "Benched ships."
(c) "River Styx."
(d) "Golden carousel."

5. Herakles comments in “Walls” that all of Geryon's creative expressions reference what?
(a) His little red dog.
(b) Being imprisoned.
(c) His mother.
(d) Flying.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. “Autobiography of Red: A Romance” opens with a poem by whom?

3. What does Geryon recall his brother doing after he's come home from a dance in “Tango”?

4. Where are Geryon and Herakles in the beginning of “Fast Forward”?

5. What does Geryon do when he returns to his hotel in “Distances”?

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