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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. Who did Morrison say was drinking from the swimming pool? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) The principal.
(b) A cat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cow.

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

3. What did Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) Reality.
(b) Fear.
(c) Nightmares.
(d) The truth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Morrison describing in the poem under "Victimization"?

2. In "Ode to LA", where did Morrison want the man found in the pool to do his dive at?

3. What did Morrison wonder about the drowned man when he was carried up to heaven?

4. In poem 4,"Jamaica", what did the principal hold?

5. What, in the poem beginning "The Endless quest a vigil", state would be missed?

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