View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Autobiography of Red: A Romance” opens with a poem by whom?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

2. In the poem that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance,” what is said to keep "His never slumbering plan"?
(a) "His cold hands."
(b) "The winds of the coming storm."
(c) "The ashes of the forgotten."
(d) "The reticent volcano."

3. What color are the butterflies that Geryon points out in “Somnambula”?
(a) Yellow and orange.
(b) Green and yellow.
(c) Red and blue.
(d) Red and black.

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

5. Who claimed that Stesichoros was the "Most Homeric of the lyric poets," according to the author in the introduction?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Suidas.
(c) Longinus.
(d) Hermogenes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Geryon,” the narrator says, "Geryon's dream began red then slipped out of the vat and" what?

2. What is the closing statement in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?

3. The opening line of “Space and Time” states, "Up against another human being one's own procedures take on" what?

4. What kind of livestock does the narrator describe Geryon raising in “Geryon”?

5. What is the word "adjective" translated to in Greek?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 253 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample