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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Geryon receive from a friend of his mother's in “Ideas”?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A teddy bear.
(c) A notebook.
(d) A guitar.

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

5. By whom was Stesichoros supposedly struck blind?
(a) Helen of Troy.
(b) Pythagoras.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to a poem in which the poet retracts a view or sentiment expressed in a former poem?

2. What has Herakles invited Geryon to see in ”Pair”?

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

4. Who said of Stesichoros, "What a sweet genius in the use of adjectives"?

5. What is the sound of horses compared to in “Geryon’s War Record”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a palinode? What palinode is described in Appendix A: “Testimonia on the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen”?

2. Where is Herakles hometown? How is it described?

3. What is the purpose of the book's introduction “Red Meat: What Difference did Stesichoros Make?”

4. What theme is explored in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?

5. To whom is the Greek writer Stesichoros compared in “Red Meat: What Difference did Stesichoros Make?”

6. What sexual abuse is described in "Each"?

7. How is Geryon's visit to the volcano explored metaphorically in Section 7?

8. What major character in the verse novel is introduced in Section 5?

9. What is signficant about Geryon's perception of himself in "Right"?

10. Who do you think is referred to by the word "Him" in "Meanwhile He Came"? Why?

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