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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of hedge surrounds the windows of the kindergarten in "Justice"?
(a) Highbush cranberry.
(b) Dwarf yaupon holly.
(c) Azalea.
(d) Yew.

2. What does Geryon's teacher ask his mother at the parent-teacher conference in “Ideas”?
(a) Whether he has been tested for learning disabilities.
(b) Whether he is being bullied at home.
(c) Whether he plans to attend college.
(d) Whether he writes anything with a happy ending.

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

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

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

6. Geryon's autobiography includes references to whose deaths in “Ideas”?
(a) His parents' deaths.
(b) The death of Herakles' grandmother.
(c) The death of Herakles.
(d) Geryon's and his dog's deaths.

7. The opening line of “Space and Time” states, "Up against another human being one's own procedures take on" what?
(a) "Definition."
(b) "New dimensions."
(c) "Willfulness."
(d) "Bravery."

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. When were the most recent fragments of Stesichoros' works recovered from cartonnage in Egypt?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1995.

15. Where is the main door of the school described in "Justice"?
(a) On the west side.
(b) On the east side.
(c) On the north side.
(d) On the south side.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who claimed that Stesichoros was the "Most Homeric of the lyric poets," according to the author in the introduction?

3. What is Geryon's mother doing as she looks at him in the opening line from “Screendoor”?

4. How many titles remain of Stesichoros' books today?

5. In what city was Stesichoros born?

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