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

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

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

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

5. What did Morrison say that the man, who died in the pool, never saw?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) God.
(c) The Devil.
(d) His true love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Ode to LA", who was Morrison chosen to play?

2. What did Morrison say that he had to leave? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

3. Where was liquor made to flow from? (Poem 13- "Village Tapes")

4. In poem two, of the section "Jamaica", where are the Major's boots?

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

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