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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Geryon recall doing a science project in “Mitwelt”?
(a) 1st grade.
(b) 3rd grade.
(c) 7th grade.
(d) 5th grade.

2. Who said of Stesichoros, "What a sweet genius in the use of adjectives"?
(a) Hermogenes.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Suidas.
(d) Longinus.

3. How did Geryon return home in “Fruit Bowl”?
(a) By taxi.
(b) By bus.
(c) By train.
(d) By airplane.

4. What are Geryon and Herakles doing in “Walls”?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Sitting in a bookstore.
(c) Going into a cafe.
(d) Painting graffiti.

5. “Mitwelt” opens with a sentence that states that "there is no person without" what?
(a) "A dream."
(b) "A world."
(c) "A mother."
(d) "A life."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is compared to "the sleep of the just" in "Each"?

2. What does Lazer say children inspire when he talks to Geryon?

3. What does Geryon's mother tidy on him before he leaves in “Screendoor”?

4. What does Geryon imagine he sees in the living room in “Water”?

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?

(see the answer key)

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