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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. How did Geryon return home in “Fruit Bowl”?
(a) By taxi.
(b) By bus.
(c) By train.
(d) By airplane.

2. Where are Geryon, Herakles, and Ancash traveling in “Gladys”?
(a) To Brazil.
(b) To Mexico.
(c) To Argentina.
(d) To Peru.

3. Who calls Geryon on the phone in “Tunnel”?
(a) Geryon's father.
(b) Geryon's mother.
(c) Geryon's brother.
(d) Herakles.

4. In the opening sentence of “Distances,” the narrator suggests that what question had intrigued Geryon for much of his life?
(a) The question of the nature of time.
(b) The question of fate versus free will.
(c) The question of sexuality.
(d) The question of family and its meaning.

5. What have been built into the walls of the volcano that Geryon's group is going to visit in “Photographs: I Am A Beast”?
(a) Steel drums.
(b) Explosive devices.
(c) Bakeries.
(d) Weather vanes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many soldiers surround the car in “Photographs: Jeats”?

2. What do Geryon and Herakles' grandmother discuss while alone in “Memory Burn”?

3. What does Herakles describe Geryon saving in his dream in “Freedom"?

4. The opening sentence of “Aeroplane” indicates that it is always what in the upper atmosphere?

5. What does Geryon recall seeing killed in “Aeroplane”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the soldiers describe the volcano in “Photographs: I Am A Beast”?

2. What does the title of the poem “Gladys” refer to?

3. What does Geryon's photograph represent in “Distances”?

4. What is foreshadowed through the discussion of lava in "AA"?

5. How is volcano imagery employed in “Kiss”?

6. What memories come to Geryon in “Tango”?

7. What is the primary subject of “Photographs: The Meek”?

8. Who is Ancash? How is this character introduced?

9. What is significant about Ancash's legend of his people in “Eyewitnesses”?

10. What does Geryon take from Harrods? Why?

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