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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, according to the third poem in the section "Drywater", what wasted and swayed forever?
(a) The child mesmerized by flight.
(b) The trees.
(c) The child almost hit by a car.
(d) The drunk on the highway.

2. Who was the "deaf witness on the bank" compared to? (Poem 4-"Drywater")
(a) God.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Morrison's father.
(d) Morrison.

3. In the poem "Silence of Night", what is described as being in the "starry night"?
(a) An airplane.
(b) A hawk.
(c) The waning moon.
(d) A bird.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Morrison say was drinking from the swimming pool? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

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

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

4. What was ending at the schoolyard in the second poem in the "Drywater" section?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the second poem from the "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say was happening in the schoolyard?

2. Who did Morrison describe in the poem "Jamaica"?

3. In the poem that began "Blessings", what is Morrison asking readers to do?

4. What did Morrison say mated? ("Drywater")

5. What did Morrison claim that he had to leave? ("Jamaica")

6. In the poem "Science of Night", whom is Morrison addressing?

7. What did Morrison say needed to be done about the situation that the pilots were in? (Poem 2-"Village Tapes")

8. What did Morrison state that children and men feared? ("Jamaica")

9. In the fourth poem from the "Drywater" section, how did Morrison bring religious imagery into the poem?

10. In the ninth poem from the "Village Tapes" section, who is Morrison looking for?

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