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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. What color is the awning over Harrods?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

2. The beginning of “Kiss” finds Geryon contemplating the "cracks and fissures of" what?
(a) "Human civilization."
(b) "His inner life."
(c) "The world."
(d) "The earth's crust."

3. When does Geryon recall doing a science project in “Mitwelt”?
(a) 1st grade.
(b) 5th grade.
(c) 7th grade.
(d) 3rd grade.

4. The opening sentence of “Slopes” suggests that Geryon could be very what?
(a) Resentful.
(b) Charming.
(c) Manipulative.
(d) Repulsive.

5. Where were the animals on the carousel carved, according to Ancash in “Harrods”?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described in the photograph in the opening sentence of “Photographs: The Old Days”?

2. How did Geryon return home in “Fruit Bowl”?

3. Stesichoros claims that he enjoyed seeing until what year in “Interview (Stesichoros)”?

4. What day of the week is described in the opening of “Roof”?

5. Lazer claims in “Distances” that the life story of all people involves them doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Geryon take from Harrods? Why?

2. How is the setting described in “Roof”?

3. How is volcano imagery employed in “Kiss”?

4. What does Geryon's photograph represent in “Distances”?

5. What is significant about the yellowbeard in Autobiography of Red?

6. What motifs appear in “Slopes”? How are they introduced?

7. What is significant about the name of the volcano that Geryon goes to visit with Ancash, his mother, and Herakles?

8. Who is Ancash? How is this character introduced?

9. What is significant about Ancash's legend of his people in “Eyewitnesses”?

10. How have Geryon's circumstances changed in Section 8?

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