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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that Geryon loved in the opening of “Total Things Known about Geryon”?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Horseback riding.
(c) Lightning.
(d) Water.

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

3. What is the red dog on the beach compared to in "Wings"?
(a) "An antelope."
(b) "Roses being burned alive."
(c) "A freed shadow."
(d) "A distant speck of grain."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The poem that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance” concludes with the lines, "The only secret people keep / Is" what?

3. What is described as making Geryon's brother happy in "Justice"?

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

5. 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”?

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