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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 competed with "Silence"? ("Ode to LA")
(a) Everything.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Woman.

2. In the fifth poem, from the section "Village Tapes", what was claimed to be real?
(a) "The Politics of ecstasy".
(b) "The questions of children".
(c) "The Wisdom of pride".
(d) "The Hope for the hopeless".

3. What did Morrison describe the "Church of God" as existing as? (From question: "What is that church like?")
(a) White bandanas and white tambourines.
(b) Masks of reality.
(c) House of hidden truths.
(d) Worship place for the strong.

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

5. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?
(a) "Enough!"
(b) "Help!"
(c) "No!"
(d) "Midnight!"

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were "sodden in silk"? ("Ode to LA")

3. What did Morrison describe as having a "cold white neon bosom"? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

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

5. Who found the body in the pool?

(see the answer key)

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