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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The opening line of “She” describes the house being dark except for a single light where?
(a) In the attic.
(b) On the porch.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the upper bedroom.

3. Who is described as performing a sex act in public in ”Grooming"?
(a) Ancash's mother.
(b) Geryon.
(c) The yellowbeard.
(d) Lazer.

4. What is Geryon's mother doing as she looks at him in the opening line from “Screendoor”?
(a) Lighting a cigarette.
(b) Pouring a glass of wine.
(c) Reading the newspaper.
(d) Washing dishes.

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

6. From what setting does Geryon leave with the centaur in the beginning of "Geryon's Weekend"?
(a) The maze.
(b) The garden.
(c) The bar.
(d) The church.

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

8. What is the sound of horses compared to in “Geryon’s War Record”?
(a) "A volcano mid-eruption."
(b) "A freed shadow."
(c) "Roses being burned alive."
(d) "Thunder clapping in the distance."

9. With whom is Herakles sitting on the lawn when Geryon finds him in “Somnambula”?
(a) Ancash.
(b) Geryon’s father.
(c) Herakles' grandmother.
(d) Lazer.

10. What is compared to "the sleep of the just" in "Each"?
(a) The ocean.
(b) Rain.
(c) Honey.
(d) Opium.

11. What color is associated with Geryon in “Walls”?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

12. What is described as making Geryon's brother happy in "Justice"?
(a) Painting.
(b) Stones.
(c) Books.
(d) Music.

13. What does Herakles say "cooked" his hometown in "Hades"?
(a) A volcano.
(b) A war between the gods.
(c) A bombing raid.
(d) A forest fire.

14. Who took the photograph that is titled “Red Patience”?
(a) Lazer.
(b) Herakles' grandmother.
(c) Stesichoros.
(d) Ancash's mother.

15. What does the narrator say that Geryon loved in the opening of “Total Things Known about Geryon”?
(a) Lightning.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Water.
(d) Horseback riding.

Short Answer Questions

1. The opening of ”Pair” describes Geryon feeling a pain not felt since when?

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

3. Geryon's autobiography includes references to whose deaths in “Ideas”?

4. In Appendix B: "The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros (Fragment 192 Poetae Melici Graeci)," the narrator says, "No you never came to" what location?

5. What is the red dog on the beach compared to in "Wings"?

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