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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of hedge surrounds the windows of the kindergarten in "Justice"?
(a) Highbush cranberry.
(b) Dwarf yaupon holly.
(c) Azalea.
(d) Yew.

2. What kind of livestock does the narrator describe Geryon raising in “Geryon”?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Goats.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Bison.

3. In Appendix B: "The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros (Fragment 192 Poetae Melici Graeci)," the narrator says, "No you never came to" what location?
(a) "The River Nile."
(b) "The kingdom of the Greeks."
(c) "The towers of Troy."
(d) "Hear me speak."

4. How does Geryon's mother define the word "each" for him in "Each"?
(a) It means going to school.
(b) It means separation and independence.
(c) It means glory and unity.
(d) It means the ability to fly.

5. What is the cup made from that the centaur offers Geryon in "Geryon's Weekend"?
(a) Gold.
(b) A skull.
(c) A shoe.
(d) A basket.

6. What does Geryon recall his dog doing in “Walls”?
(a) Running away from home.
(b) Biting a mailman.
(c) Eating his ice cream cone.
(d) Getting hit by a car.

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

8. What smell in "Justice" "was pulling [Geryon] toward it / like a strong sea"?
(a) "The smell of dandelions."
(b) "The smell of Herakles' flowers."
(c) "The smell of the falling snow."
(d) "The smell of grass everywhere."

9. Who is described as performing a sex act in public in ”Grooming"?
(a) Geryon.
(b) The yellowbeard.
(c) Lazer.
(d) Ancash's mother.

10. What does Geryon's mother tidy on him before he leaves in “Screendoor”?
(a) His tie.
(b) His hair.
(c) His shoes.
(d) His wings.

11. What is the opening sentence in the beginning of "Sex Question"?
(a) "Where is the night?"
(b) "The leaves were soft red."
(c) "Is it a question?"
(d) "What does he want?"

12. Who is described as wearing rhinestones in "Rhinestones"?
(a) Helen of Troy.
(b) Geryon's mother.
(c) Herakles' grandmother.
(d) Athena.

13. The narrator says in the poetic excerpt of Appendix B: "The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros (Fragment 192 Poetae Melici Graeci)," "No you never went on the" what?
(a) "Benched ships."
(b) "River Styx."
(c) "Golden carousel."
(d) "Gray clouds."

14. Herakles comments in “Walls” that all of Geryon's creative expressions reference what?
(a) Flying.
(b) Being imprisoned.
(c) His mother.
(d) His little red dog.

15. Approximately when was Stesichoros born?
(a) 100 B.C.
(b) 500 B.C.
(c) 650 B.C.
(d) 250 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author is described in the introduction as summing up Picasso in saying, "This one was working"?

2. What has Herakles invited Geryon to see in ”Pair”?

3. Who abducted Helen, according to mythology?

4. Whose quote opens “Red Meat: What Difference did Stesichoros Make?”

5. What does Geryon receive from a friend of his mother's in “Ideas”?

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