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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What color are the butterflies that Geryon points out in “Somnambula”?
(a) Yellow and orange.
(b) Red and blue.
(c) Green and yellow.
(d) Red and black.

4. To whom does Plato compare Stesichoros in Appendix A: “Testimonia on the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen”?
(a) Homer.
(b) Longinus.
(c) Isokrates.
(d) Suidas.

5. Where are Geryon and Herakles sitting in "Sex Question"?
(a) In a movie theater.
(b) In church.
(c) In a car.
(d) In Geryon's bedroom.

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

7. Who is cited with claiming that Helen made an object lesson of the poet Stesichoros in Appendix A: “Testimonia on the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen”?
(a) Longinus.
(b) Isokrates.
(c) Hermogenes.
(d) Homer.

8. What goddesss is describe as looking through the floor in "Meanwhilte in Heaven"?
(a) Athena.
(b) Atremis.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Demeter.

9. Who claimed that Stesichoros was the "Most Homeric of the lyric poets," according to the author in the introduction?
(a) Longinus.
(b) Suidas.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Hermogenes.

10. 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 II.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Fall of Troy.
(d) The murder of Julius Caesar.

11. What kind of sports practice do Geryon's brother and father attend in "Tuesday"?
(a) Football.
(b) Hockey.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Soccer.

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

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

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

15. Herakles comments in “Walls” that all of Geryon's creative expressions reference what?
(a) Being imprisoned.
(b) His mother.
(c) His little red dog.
(d) Flying.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who calls Herakles' family's home in “She”?

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

4. Where is the main door of the school described in "Justice"?

5. 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?

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