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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the first line of Appendix B: "The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros (Fragment 192 Poetae Melici Graeci)," the narrator states, "No it is not" what?
(a) "Tomorrow's rain."
(b) "The true story."
(c) "The days of old."
(d) "Yet summertime."

2. What is Geryon doing when the phone rings in the beginning of “Tunnel”?
(a) He is packing.
(b) He is reading.
(c) He is writing.
(d) He is playing guitar.

3. Stesichoros is said to have spoken a mixed dialect in the novel's introduction. What dialects did he speak?
(a) Chalcidian and Doric.
(b) Agrigento and Calambrian.
(c) Scymnic and Carthaginian.
(d) Syracusan and Strabian.

4. The beginning of “Kiss” finds Geryon contemplating the "cracks and fissures of" what?
(a) "His inner life."
(b) "The earth's crust."
(c) "The world."
(d) "Human civilization."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Herakles tells Geryon he should go see the collection of what that are housed by Ancash's mother in “Roof”?

2. What smell in "Justice" "was pulling [Geryon] toward it / like a strong sea"?

3. What are the women doing by the side of the road when Geryon, Herakles, and Ancash pass them in the end of “Car”?

4. To whom does Plato compare Stesichoros in Appendix A: “Testimonia on the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen”?

5. The opening sentence of “Slopes” suggests that Geryon could be very what?

(see the answer key)

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