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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is compared to "the sleep of the just" in "Each"?
(a) Rain.
(b) Opium.
(c) Honey.
(d) The ocean.

2. What kind of livestock does the narrator describe Geryon raising in “Geryon”?
(a) Bison.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Goats.

3. Stesichoros' words were collected in how many books, according to the author in the introduction?
(a) 26.
(b) 41.
(c) 32.
(d) 16.

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

5. 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?
(a) "River Styx."
(b) "Golden carousel."
(c) "Benched ships."
(d) "Gray clouds."

Short Answer Questions

1. What goddesss is describe as looking through the floor in "Meanwhilte in Heaven"?

2. How is Geryon's brother described in comparison to Geryon in the beginning of "Justice"?

3. What is the described as the "unsavory aftermath" of Helen's sexual misconduct in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?

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

5. Who said of Stesichoros, "What a sweet genius in the use of adjectives"?

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