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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Village Tapes: Poems Recorded December 7, 1970.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Morrison describe "like a white funereal butterfly barge"? (Poem 5- "Jamaica")
(a) A sheet on the clothesline.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A bed.
(d) A dress.

2. What did Morrison say the "bleached sun" was needed for?
(a) Lunch by the pool.
(b) A life forgotten.
(c) A day of dying.
(d) TV aftrenoons.

3. How did Morrison describe the pictures of the boxing match? (Poem 2-"Jamaica")
(a) "A beating of reverse".
(b) "Off-color prints".
(c) "Unrealistic reality".
(d) "Period prints".

4. According to the first poem in the "Village Tapes" section, who lied?
(a) No one.
(b) All the world.
(c) The trees.
(d) The birds.

5. Who, according to the second poem in the "Village Tapes" section, was hungry for steel?
(a) Birds.
(b) "We" were.
(c) The sea.
(d) Lovers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?

2. What was in the road while the children were at church?

3. Where did the people in the poem think they might be? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")

4. What was the name of the whore-house in the last poem of the section titled "Jamaica"?

5. Who resided in "meat heaven"? ("Ode to LA")

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