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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 dream was stated as being "mad stifled witness"? ("Ode to LA" )
(a) Dark.
(b) Summer.
(c) Witnessed.
(d) Chlorine.

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

3. According to "Ode to LA" , who claimed "this benevolent soul"?
(a) The oppressed.
(b) The Demon of Hate.
(c) The angel man.
(d) The smiling God.

4. In the poem "Silence of Night", what is described as being in the "starry night"?
(a) The waning moon.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A hawk.
(d) A bird.

5. What did Morrison say that he had to leave? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) The world.
(b) The galaxy.
(c) The earth.
(d) The island.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the first poem in the section named "Jamaica", the hour of "what" ended?

2. What did Morrison say the "bleached sun" was needed for?

3. Who did Morrison say to poke holes in? ("Ode to LA")

4. What was behind the nursery door? (Poem 5-"Jamaica")

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

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