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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Morrison name the boxing match at the end of the poem? (Poem 2-"Jamaica")
(a) "A Blip in Life".
(b) "A Consistant Battle".
(c) "A Fight of Fear".
(d) "A Negro Dance".

2. What was the name of the whore-house in the last poem of the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Bevo's Temptation.
(b) Dante's Inferno.
(c) Miss Templin's.
(d) Lord John & Lady Anne's.

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

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

5. How did Morrison describe the land on the schoolyard? (Poem 2- "Drywater")
(a) Mighty.
(b) Hidden.
(c) Unstoppable.
(d) Female.

6. In the poem "Cassandra at the Well", what did Morrison say was happening?
(a) He was pushing his lover down the well.
(b) He was throwing all of his money away.
(c) He was wishing for life.
(d) He was dying.

7. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?
(a) Thunder.
(b) Frenzied birds.
(c) Record noise.
(d) Voices singing.

8. What did "we" do to send "our" gift into the vast promise? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")
(a) Laugh.
(b) Scream.
(c) Cry.
(d) Sing.

9. How did Morrison describe religion in the first poem from the section named "Drywater"?
(a) Velvet furred.
(b) Hope for the hopeless.
(c) Quick to falter.
(d) A dying breed.

10. What made wine? (Poem 15- "Village Tapes")
(a) The sun.
(b) God.
(c) Man.
(d) The night.

11. What strangled the cliffs in the East? (Poem 1- "Village Tapes")
(a) Birds.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Houses.
(d) Nests.

12. What did the men, described by Morrison, wear in the poem? (Poem 1- "Jamaica")
(a) Nothing.
(b) Tunics or short skirts.
(c) Holy jeans.
(d) Robes of gold.

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

14. How did the "Jamaica" section end?
(a) "Questions....."
(b) "Boom Boom."
(c) "Oh no."
(d) "Close your eyes."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?

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

3. What did Morrison want to be, as detailed by the poem that began "Fence my scared fire"?

4. Who was the "deaf witness on the bank" compared to? (Poem 4-"Drywater")

5. 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?

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