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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who said of Stesichoros, "What a sweet genius in the use of adjectives"?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Suidas.
(c) Hermogenes.
(d) Longinus.

3. What author is described in the introduction as summing up Picasso in saying, "This one was working"?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) William Butler Yeats.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

4. What is the closing statement in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?
(a) "Either Helen existed or she did not."
(b) "Either Stesichoros was a blind man or he was not."
(c) "Either Helen was the daughter of Zeus or she was not."
(d) "If Stesichoros was a blind man either we will lie or if not not."

5. The poem that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance” concludes with the lines, "The only secret people keep / Is" what?
(a) "Truth."
(b) "Nightmares."
(c) "Betrayal."
(d) "Immortality."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said of Stesichoros' works, "Makes those old stories new," according to the author in the novel's introduction?

2. What does Geryon touch inside his coat pocket outside the school in "Justice"?

3. What goddesss is describe as looking through the floor in "Meanwhilte in Heaven"?

4. In the first line of Appendix B: "The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros (Fragment 192 Poetae Melici Graeci)," the narrator states, "No it is not" what?

5. What is the sound of horses compared to in “Geryon’s War Record”?

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