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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Jamaica.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the night in the poem that started "In that year"?
(a) Radio dark.
(b) Moonlit.
(c) An infinite number of stars lighting the land.
(d) Void of stars.

2. In poem two, of the section "Jamaica", where are the Major's boots?
(a) In the shed.
(b) By the highway.
(c) By the sink.
(d) Where he left them.

3. What passed at the end of the poem "Tape Noon"?
(a) A child.
(b) A stranger.
(c) A girl.
(d) A car.

4. What is the prisoner, in "Moment of Freedom", compared to in the poem?
(a) A mole.
(b) A child.
(c) A bird.
(d) A lion.

5. What did Morrison say was all around him in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?
(a) Trash and "trash".
(b) Bodies and animals.
(c) Music and voices.
(d) Black and white.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Morrison call back in "Ode to LA"?

2. In the poem that started "In that year", what did Morrison claim to be stroked with?

3. What did the ancient ones stand beside? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")

4. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?

5. How did Morrison describe the laughter he had on the beach? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")

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