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

2. What kind of livestock does the narrator describe Geryon raising in “Geryon”?
(a) Bison.
(b) Goats.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Sheep.

3. What drink does the centaur give to Geryon in "Geryon's Weekend"?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Cognac.
(c) Water.
(d) Wine.

4. What is the closing statement in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?
(a) "Either Stesichoros was a blind man or he was not."
(b) "If Stesichoros was a blind man either we will lie or if not not."
(c) "Either Helen existed or she did not."
(d) "Either Helen was the daughter of Zeus or she was not."

5. What smell in "Justice" "was pulling [Geryon] toward it / like a strong sea"?
(a) "The smell of the falling snow."
(b) "The smell of dandelions."
(c) "The smell of grass everywhere."
(d) "The smell of Herakles' flowers."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Geryon's mother define the word "each" for him in "Each"?

2. 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”?

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

4. What kind of hedge surrounds the windows of the kindergarten in "Justice"?

5. Who does Herakles grandmother claim to have known in “She”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the quote that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance”?

2. How would you describe the language style in the introduction to the novel?

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

4. What does the dog signify in "Wings" and the other early poems in the novel?

5. How are volcanoes explored metaphorically in Section 6?

6. What are examples of foreshadowing seen in “Sex Question” through “Somnambula”?

7. Why and how is Virginia Woolf alluded to in "She"?

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

9. How is the color red employed as a motif in the novel?

10. What supposedly caused Stesichoros' "un-blinding"?

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