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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 is Geryon doing when the phone rings in the beginning of “Tunnel”?
(a) He is packing.
(b) He is writing.
(c) He is reading.
(d) He is playing guitar.

2. Where are Herakles and Geryon going in the beginning of “Memory Burn”?
(a) To a video store.
(b) To a candy store.
(c) To a school play.
(d) To a bookstore.

3. What does Geryon recall seeing killed in “Aeroplane”?
(a) A snake.
(b) A deer.
(c) A grizzly bear.
(d) A rabid dog.

4. What does the narrator describe dusting "them" in the first sentence of “The Flashes in Which A Man Possesses Himself”?
(a) Water.
(b) Flour.
(c) Lava.
(d) Salt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who falls asleep on the way to the volcano in “AA”?

2. How is the weather described when Geryon wakes in the night in “Water”?

3. Where is Geryon in the opening of “Kiss”?

4. The yellowbeard suggests that doctors hide the fact that many children are born with what in “Distances”?

5. What does Ancash see that prompts him to tell Geryon about the legend in “Eyewitnesses”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Geryon doing when he encounters Herakles in "Kiss"? Why?

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

3. What is the central conflict in “Photographs: Like and Not Like”?

4. Who is Lazer? How is his character introduced?

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

6. How is the setting described in “Huaraz”?

7. Where in the novel does the climax occur?

8. What does the term “Mitwelt” refer to in this poem?

9. What is suggested by the flushed cheeks of the passengers on the plane in “Gladys”?

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

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