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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 Morrison wonder about the drowned man when he was carried up to heaven?
(a) Would he make the trip?
(b) Would he stink?
(c) Would he fall back to earth?
(d) Would he come back as a fish?

2. What was the name of the whore-house in the last poem of the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Bevo's Temptation.
(b) Lord John & Lady Anne's.
(c) Dante's Inferno.
(d) Miss Templin's.

3. What did Morrison name the boxing match at the end of the poem? (Poem 2-"Jamaica")
(a) "A Fight of Fear".
(b) "A Negro Dance".
(c) "A Blip in Life".
(d) "A Consistant Battle".

4. How did Morrison describe the pool that the man died in?
(a) Sulfor infested.
(b) Blue abyss.
(c) Green vanity.
(d) Hot buttered.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fifth poem, from the section "Village Tapes", what was claimed to be real?

2. What was in the road while the children were at church?

3. What did the principal think was in the building? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

4. What did the men, described by Morrison, wear in the poem? (Poem 1- "Jamaica")

5. How did the "Jamaica" section end?

(see the answer key)

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