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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) "The winds of the coming storm."
(d) "His cold hands."

2. The opening line of “Space and Time” states, "Up against another human being one's own procedures take on" what?
(a) "Bravery."
(b) "Definition."
(c) "New dimensions."
(d) "Willfulness."

3. What is the cup made from that the centaur offers Geryon in "Geryon's Weekend"?
(a) A skull.
(b) Gold.
(c) A basket.
(d) A shoe.

4. Geryon's mother is described in "Geryon's Reversible Destiny" as being the "Engineer of his" what?
(a) "Birth."
(b) "Softness."
(c) "Creativity."
(d) "Mind."

5. Where does Geryon encounter Herakles in "Change"?
(a) On the schoolyard.
(b) At an arcade.
(c) At church.
(d) At the bus depot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of hedge surrounds the windows of the kindergarten in "Justice"?

2. Geryon's autobiography includes references to whose deaths in “Ideas”?

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. What is the word "adjective" translated to in Greek?

5. In "Geryon's Death Begins," the narrator says, "Geryon walked the red length of his mind and answered" what?

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