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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Morrison say that the interview was?
(a) The music of a soul.
(b) The cloud cover.
(c) The opening of the clam.
(d) The new art form.

2. What did Morrison describe himself as in the poem beginning "Frozen moment by a lake"?
(a) A death bird.
(b) A blind owl.
(c) An injured rabbit.
(d) A deaf bat.

3. What did Morrison say an interview was similar to?
(a) Answering questions on a witness stand.
(b) Answering questions posed by a mother.
(c) Being questioned by the principal in school.
(d) Being a monkey caged at the zoo.

4. What did the ancient ones stand beside? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")
(a) A circle of directions.
(b) A crying moon.
(c) An ancient lake.
(d) A lightning-struck tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Morrison say that poetry appealed to him?

2. What did the man, who died in the pool, float on? ("Ode to LA")

3. What passed at the end of the poem "Tape Noon"?

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

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

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