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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Morrison say, in the first poem of the "Drywater" section, say that men assembled at to create armies and find foes to fight?
(a) Around the fire.
(b) The pier at the beach.
(c) The pool hall.
(d) The men's room.

2. What kind of prayer did the poem call for to hope for a "strong plane landing"? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")
(a) Boisterous.
(b) American.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Consistent.

3. In the three-line poem, poem eighteen "Village Tapes", what did the people describe a race toward?
(a) The sun.
(b) Death.
(c) The moon.
(d) Life.

4. In poem one, "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say went down drains?
(a) Birds and their shadows.
(b) Drills and water.
(c) Hopes and dreams.
(d) Memories and the future.

5. What did Morrison say was "hanging on the wing of the raven" in the first poem of the section titled "Drywater"?
(a) "Your soul".
(b) "Your meat".
(c) "Your humanity".
(d) "Your name".

6. What was behind the nursery door? (Poem 5-"Jamaica")
(a) A dog house.
(b) An empty swing.
(c) An old elm tree.
(d) A reef.

7. What did the woman, in the third poem in the section titled "Drywater", take with her when she left?
(a) Silver coins.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Gold coins.
(d) Rubies.

8. Where was liquor made to flow from? (Poem 13- "Village Tapes")
(a) Everywhere.
(b) Borderlands.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) He was not sure.

9. What is the metaphor that Morrison used for the "night"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")
(a) Steel machine.
(b) Shovel.
(c) Blanket of heat.
(d) Netting.

10. In the poem that began "Cobra sun/Fever smile", at the end, who came?
(a) America.
(b) God.
(c) Death.
(d) Asia.

11. How did Morrison describe the "couplings out in the night", in the fourth poem from the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Insane.
(b) Bewildered.
(c) Coherent.
(d) Doubting.

12. What was Morrison describing in the poem under "Victimization"?
(a) A revival.
(b) A wedding.
(c) An awakening.
(d) A mass.

13. What was ending at the schoolyard in the second poem in the "Drywater" section?
(a) The school day.
(b) Lunch.
(c) The school year.
(d) Play rehearsal.

14. Who did the woman beg to marry her? (Poem 3- "Drywater")
(a) The master of sound.
(b) The spider-king.
(c) The King of Beasts.
(d) The writer of poetry.

15. What, according to the fifteenth poem in the "Village Tapes" section, would happen if "the writer can write & the farmer can sow"?
(a) Song can exist.
(b) Miracles.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?

2. What did Morrison call blessed, in the first poem in the section "Jamaica"?

3. What was left "shaken in the gloom"? (Poem 3-"Drywater)

4. Who did the speaker in the poem "Blessings" ask forgiveness from?

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

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