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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many titles remain of Stesichoros' books today?
(a) 20 or so.
(b) 5 or so.
(c) 100 or so.
(d) 12 or so.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What author is described in the introduction as summing up Picasso in saying, "This one was working"?

2. Why is Geryon sent to his room in "Geryon's Parents"?

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

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

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