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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By whom was Stesichoros supposedly struck blind?
(a) Helen of Troy.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Homer.
(d) Pythagoras.

2. Who said of Stesichoros, "What a sweet genius in the use of adjectives"?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Suidas.
(c) Longinus.
(d) Hermogenes.

3. What is the word "adjective" translated to in Greek?
(a) Epitheton.
(b) Platoan.
(c) Panormus.
(d) Hermogenous.

4. Stesichoros is said to have spoken a mixed dialect in the novel's introduction. What dialects did he speak?
(a) Chalcidian and Doric.
(b) Agrigento and Calambrian.
(c) Scymnic and Carthaginian.
(d) Syracusan and Strabian.

5. Whose quote opens “Red Meat: What Difference did Stesichoros Make?”
(a) Emily Dickinson's.
(b) Gertrude Stein's.
(c) Homer's.
(d) Sophocles'.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When were the most recent fragments of Stesichoros' works recovered from cartonnage in Egypt?

4. What kind of livestock does the narrator describe Geryon raising in “Geryon”?

5. Approximately when was Stesichoros born?

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