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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Geryon defined as in the verse novel?
(a) As a god.
(b) As a dragon.
(c) As a demi-god.
(d) As a monster.

2. Who does Herakles grandmother claim to have known in “She”?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Isokrates.
(d) Suidas.

3. In “Geryon,” the narrator says, "Geryon's dream began red then slipped out of the vat and" what?
(a) "Ran."
(b) "Exploded."
(c) "Spilled."
(d) "Wept."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Geryon's mother suggest he use next time in making a sculpture in "Tuesday"?

3. Where is Geryon going to visit in “Tunnel”?

4. What does Geryon touch inside his coat pocket outside the school in "Justice"?

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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