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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. Why did Morrison claim the night described in the tenth poem ("Village Tapes") was the "greatest night of my life"?
(a) His friends were with him.
(b) He was on stage for the first time.
(c) He was with the woman he loved.
(d) His mother had found him again.

2. In the poem that began "I fell on the earth", what seats were the people described as sleek and fat buckled into?
(a) Train seats.
(b) Bus seats.
(c) Car seats.
(d) Airplane seats.

3. What did Morrison call blessed, in the first poem in the section "Jamaica"?
(a) The hope.
(b) The children.
(c) The night.
(d) The life.

4. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?
(a) His fears.
(b) His truths.
(c) His reality.
(d) His lies.

5. Where did the savages fall out from in the poem "Ode to LA"?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The sky.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The falls.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did the people in the poem think they might be? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")

4. What did Morrison compare the beak of the vulture to? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

5. Where did the satyr in "Ode to LA" leap to?

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