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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is described in the photograph in the opening line of “Photographs: I Am A Beast”?
2. Where are Geryon and Herakles in the beginning of “Fast Forward”?
3. How is the weather described when Geryon wakes in the night in “Water”?
4. How is the book that Geryon is reading described in “Gladys”?
5. What does the narrator describe dusting "them" in the first sentence of “The Flashes in Which A Man Possesses Himself”?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Geryon's circumstances in “Tunnel.” How old is he at this point in the narrative?
2. What motifs appear in “Slopes”? How are they introduced?
3. What is the central conflict in “Photographs: Like and Not Like”?
4. What do Geryon and Herakles' grandmother discuss in “Memory Burn”?
5. What is Geryon doing when he encounters Herakles in "Kiss"? Why?
6. What is the primary subject of “Photographs: The Meek”?
7. What does Geryon take from Harrods? Why?
8. Where in the novel does the climax occur?
9. How do the soldiers describe the volcano in “Photographs: I Am A Beast”?
10. What is significant about the reference to Helen in “Interview (Stesichoros)”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the motif of the color red that appears throughout the novel. What does this color represent to Geryon and the other characters in the story? What does red represent to you? What themes does the color connect to in Autobiography of Red?
Essay Topic 2
Where does Geryon get a job when he becomes an adult? What is metaphorically significant about this job? What does the job foreshadow? How does irony apply to Geryon's job?
Essay Topic 3
How is Geryon's character introduced in the narrative? How old is Geryon when his character is introduced in the first poems from “Red Meat: Fragments of Stesichoros”? What does Geryon look like?
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