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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 kind of tires did the people in the poem (Poem 2-"Village Tapes") ride on out of the airport?
(a) Waxy.
(b) Opium.
(c) Studded.
(d) Ginger.

2. How did Morrison describe the man who died in the pool-in regard to him being a muse?
(a) A damask musky muse.
(b) A waxy sullen muse.
(c) A bloated risen muse.
(d) A silken shod muse.

3. How did Morrison describe the pool that the man died in?
(a) Sulfor infested.
(b) Blue abyss.
(c) Green vanity.
(d) Hot buttered.

4. What did Morrison describe as having a "cold white neon bosom"? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) His lover.
(b) Music.
(c) Poetry.
(d) America.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of prayer did the poem call for to hope for a "strong plane landing"? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")

2. How did Morrison describe the "couplings out in the night", in the fourth poem from the section titled "Jamaica"?

3. What did Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

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

5. What did Morrison say that the horned-toads were mavericks of?

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