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

2. What did Morrison want to be, as detailed by the poem that began "Fence my scared fire"?
(a) "To live awake and not asleep".
(b) "To live open to the prospects".
(c) "To be simple, black & clean."
(d) "To live life like a god".

3. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?
(a) The stuck.
(b) The hopeless.
(c) The chauffeured.
(d) The poor.

4. In "Ode to LA", where did Morrison want the man found in the pool to do his dive at?
(a) In another pool.
(b) At an oceanfront.
(c) At another time.
(d) On another channel.

5. What did Morrison question about the body in the pool?
(a) The smile frozen on the face.
(b) The pale green stuff it was made of.
(c) The objectivity of which it was pulled from the pool.
(d) The bloated whiteness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dream was stated as being "mad stifled witness"? ("Ode to LA" )

2. How did Morrison say that he hoped his friend, who died in the pool, "went out"?

3. What did Morrison call the man who died in the pool in the stanza after the description of the body being found?

4. What did Morrison describe "like a white funereal butterfly barge"? (Poem 5- "Jamaica")

5. How did Morrison describe the satyr in "Ode to LA"?

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