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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. Whose relationship with Geryon's is becoming more distant in “Space and Time”?
(a) Geryon's brother.
(b) Geryon's mother.
(c) Geryon's uncle.
(d) Herakles.

2. What kind of sports practice do Geryon's brother and father attend in "Tuesday"?
(a) Football.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Hockey.

3. Stesichoros is said to have spoken a mixed dialect in the novel's introduction. What dialects did he speak?
(a) Syracusan and Strabian.
(b) Scymnic and Carthaginian.
(c) Agrigento and Calambrian.
(d) Chalcidian and Doric.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Helen described as drinking a glass of in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?

2. What question does Geryon ask Herakles in "Sex Question"?

3. The subject in the opening line of “Lava” imagines being what alone in the dark?

4. What is Geryon's mother standing next to in the opening line from “Screendoor”?

5. How does Geryon's mother define the word "each" for him in "Each"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is signficant about Geryon's perception of himself in "Right"?

2. How is the color red used as a motif in Section 5?

3. What theme is explored in Appendix C: "Clearing Up of the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen"?

4. What is a palinode? What palinode is described in Appendix A: “Testimonia on the Question of Stesichoros’ Blinding by Helen”?

5. To whom is the Greek writer Stesichoros compared in “Red Meat: What Difference did Stesichoros Make?”

6. Where is Herakles hometown? How is it described?

7. What irony can be seen in the poem "Justice"?

8. What are examples of foreshadowing seen in “Sex Question” through “Somnambula”?

9. What is significant about the quote that opens “Autobiography of Red: A Romance”?

10. What is the significance of the word "each" in the poem with the same title?

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