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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Geryon's brother described in comparison to Geryon in the beginning of "Justice"?
(a) "Thinner and smarter."
(b) "Bigger and older."
(c) "Fatter and wiser."
(d) "Younger and smaller."

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

3. 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 ashes of the forgotten."
(c) "The winds of the coming storm."
(d) "The reticent volcano."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from “Geryon's Parents" refers to a Lilin-demon in male form who lies upon women in order to engage in sexual activity with them?

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

4. What smell in "Justice" "was pulling [Geryon] toward it / like a strong sea"?

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

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