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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Geryon sent to his room in "Geryon's Parents"?
(a) For wearing a mask at the supper table.
(b) For kicking the dog.
(c) For hitting his brother at the dinner table.
(d) For talking back to his father.

2. Who said of Stesichoros' works, "Makes those old stories new," according to the author in the novel's introduction?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Suidas.
(c) Hermogenes.
(d) Longinus.

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

4. Approximately when was Stesichoros born?
(a) 650 B.C.
(b) 500 B.C.
(c) 100 B.C.
(d) 250 B.C.

5. Who claimed that Stesichoros was the "Most Homeric of the lyric poets," according to the author in the introduction?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Longinus.
(c) Suidas.
(d) Hermogenes.

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom was Stesichoros supposedly struck blind?

2. Who said of Stesichoros, "What a sweet genius in the use of adjectives"?

3. What is the red dog on the beach compared to in "Wings"?

4. Stesichoros' words were collected in how many books, according to the author in the introduction?

5. Whose quote opens “Red Meat: What Difference did Stesichoros Make?”

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