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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 do when he returns to his hotel in “Distances”?
(a) The goes immediately to sleep.
(b) He takes a photograph of himself.
(c) He reads a newspaper.
(d) He calls his mother.

2. What does Geryon have in his lap as he falls asleep in “Aeroplane”?
(a) A bouquet of flowers.
(b) His autobiography.
(c) A small dog.
(d) His guidebook.

3. When he is in the bookstore, Geryon is distracted by a man playing games outside with what in “Kiss”?
(a) A dog.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bird.
(d) A child.

4. Where does Geryon go with the yellowbeard after the lecture in “Distances”?
(a) To a cafe.
(b) To the yellowbeard's home.
(c) To his mother's home.
(d) To a movie theater.

5. What does Ancash say he wants to see Geryon do in “Photographs: Like and Not Like”?
(a) Use his wings.
(b) Fight Herakles.
(c) Get married.
(d) Climb a mountain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are the women doing by the side of the road when Geryon, Herakles, and Ancash pass them in the end of “Car”?

4. The opening sentence of “Kiss” suggests that "a healthy volcano is an exercise in" what?

5. Where does Geryon encounter Ancash after leaving his hotel room in “Photographs: Like and Not Like”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What do Geryon and Herakles' grandmother discuss in “Memory Burn”?

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

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

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

8. How is the setting described in “Roof”?

9. Where in the novel does the climax occur?

10. What motifs appear in “Slopes”? How are they introduced?

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