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

2. What does Geryon recall his dog doing in “Walls”?
(a) Biting a mailman.
(b) Getting hit by a car.
(c) Eating his ice cream cone.
(d) Running away from home.

3. What are Geryon and Herakles doing in “Walls”?
(a) Sitting in a bookstore.
(b) Painting graffiti.
(c) Playing the piano.
(d) Going into a cafe.

4. How many titles remain of Stesichoros' books today?
(a) 5 or so.
(b) 100 or so.
(c) 20 or so.
(d) 12 or so.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

4. To whom does Plato compare Stesichoros in Appendix A: “Testimonia on the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen”?

5. In "Grooming," the opening sentence describes living childhood close to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What comprises Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?

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

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

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

6. How is the color red explored metaphorically in Section 7?

7. What is the significance of the word "each" in the poem with the same title?

8. How is the motif of the color red explored in "Justice," "Each," and "Rhinestones"?

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

10. What is noted about the innovations of Stesichoros' writing in “Red Meat: What Difference did Stesichoros Make?”

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