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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What goddesss is describe as looking through the floor in "Meanwhilte in Heaven"?
(a) Demeter.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Atremis.
(d) Athena.

2. Who was Helen's mother, according to mythology?
(a) Demeter.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Leda.
(d) Athena.

3. Who is described as wearing rhinestones in "Rhinestones"?
(a) Herakles' grandmother.
(b) Helen of Troy.
(c) Geryon's mother.
(d) Athena.

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

5. When were the most recent fragments of Stesichoros' works recovered from cartonnage in Egypt?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many titles remain of Stesichoros' books today?

2. Who is cited with claiming that Helen made an object lesson of the poet Stesichoros in Appendix A: “Testimonia on the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen”?

3. In the first line of Appendix B: "The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros (Fragment 192 Poetae Melici Graeci)," the narrator states, "No it is not" what?

4. In Appendix B: "The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros (Fragment 192 Poetae Melici Graeci)," the narrator says, "No you never came to" what location?

5. Who claimed that Stesichoros was the "Most Homeric of the lyric poets," according to the author in the introduction?

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