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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Geryon sent to his room in "Geryon's Parents"?
(a) For hitting his brother at the dinner table.
(b) For wearing a mask at the supper table.
(c) For kicking the dog.
(d) For talking back to his father.

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

3. What is the red dog on the beach compared to in "Wings"?
(a) "An antelope."
(b) "A freed shadow."
(c) "Roses being burned alive."
(d) "A distant speck of grain."

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

5. Where does Geryon encounter Herakles in "Change"?
(a) At an arcade.
(b) On the schoolyard.
(c) At church.
(d) At the bus depot.

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

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

8. What is Geryon's mother standing next to in the opening line from “Screendoor”?
(a) The ironing board.
(b) A gravestone.
(c) A school building.
(d) A statue.

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

10. In what city was Stesichoros born?
(a) Himera.
(b) Strabo.
(c) Cephaloedium.
(d) Panormus.

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

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

13. In "Grooming," the opening sentence describes living childhood close to what?
(a) The sky.
(b) The forest.
(c) The sea.
(d) The desert.

14. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Stesichoros is said to have spoken a mixed dialect in the novel's introduction. What dialects did he speak?

2. What is Helen described as drinking a glass of in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?

3. What kind of food does Geryon use in making his sculpture in "Tuesday"?

4. The subject in the opening line of “Lava” imagines being what alone in the dark?

5. The poem that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance” concludes with the lines, "The only secret people keep / Is" what?

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