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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Geryon touch inside his coat pocket outside the school in "Justice"?
(a) A scarab.
(b) A piece of ribbon.
(c) A dollar bill.
(d) A lucky penny.

2. What does Geryon's mother suggest he use next time in making a sculpture in "Tuesday"?
(a) Clay.
(b) A ten-dollar bill.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A one-dollar bill.

3. In the poem that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance,” what is said to keep "His never slumbering plan"?
(a) "The winds of the coming storm."
(b) "His cold hands."
(c) "The reticent volcano."
(d) "The ashes of the forgotten."

4. What is the opening sentence in the beginning of "Sex Question"?
(a) "The leaves were soft red."
(b) "Where is the night?"
(c) "Is it a question?"
(d) "What does he want?"

5. The opening of ”Pair” describes Geryon feeling a pain not felt since when?
(a) Childhood.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) His father's death.
(d) The war.

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

7. What does Geryon's brother place on his head in "Rhinestones"?
(a) A baseball cap.
(b) A dictionary.
(c) A football helmet.
(d) An empty fruit bowl.

8. What author is described in the introduction as summing up Picasso in saying, "This one was working"?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) William Butler Yeats.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

9. Who said of Stesichoros' works, "Makes those old stories new," according to the author in the novel's introduction?
(a) Longinus.
(b) Hermogenes.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Suidas.

10. Who was Helen's mother, according to mythology?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Leda.
(c) Athena.
(d) Demeter.

11. What word refers to a poem in which the poet retracts a view or sentiment expressed in a former poem?
(a) Epitheton.
(b) Palinode.
(c) Incubus.
(d) Proscenium.

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

13. What does Geryon's mother tidy on him before he leaves in “Screendoor”?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His wings.
(c) His tie.
(d) His hair.

14. What is the described as the "unsavory aftermath" of Helen's sexual misconduct in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?
(a) World War I.
(b) The murder of Julius Caesar.
(c) The Fall of Troy.
(d) World War II.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Geryon encounter Herakles in "Change"?

2. Who abducted Helen, according to mythology?

3. 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?

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

5. When were the most recent fragments of Stesichoros' works recovered from cartonnage in Egypt?

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