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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Geryon offer to do for his mother in the end of “Space and Time”?
(a) He offers to take her to the store.
(b) He offers to take her to the bus station.
(c) He offers to light her cigarette.
(d) He offers to pour her a drink.

2. How does Geryon's mother define the word "each" for him in "Each"?
(a) It means going to school.
(b) It means separation and independence.
(c) It means glory and unity.
(d) It means the ability to fly.

3. Who is cited with claiming that Helen made an object lesson of the poet Stesichoros in Appendix A: “Testimonia on the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen”?
(a) Isokrates.
(b) Hermogenes.
(c) Homer.
(d) Longinus.

4. What is the word "adjective" translated to in Greek?
(a) Epitheton.
(b) Panormus.
(c) Hermogenous.
(d) Platoan.

5. How are Geryon, Herakles, and Ancash traveling in “Gladys”?
(a) By taxi.
(b) By bus.
(c) By plane.
(d) By train.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the book that Geryon is reading described in “Gladys”?

2. Who interrupts Geryon's conversation with his mother in "Click"?

3. What word refers to South American cowboys in “Aeroplane”?

4. 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?

5. The beginning of “Kiss” finds Geryon contemplating the "cracks and fissures of" what?

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