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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. At the end of the second poem in the "Drywater" section, who was described as "winning"?
(a) The teachers.
(b) The bad guys.
(c) The good guys.
(d) The children.

2. What did Morrison describe "like a white funereal butterfly barge"? (Poem 5- "Jamaica")
(a) A mirror.
(b) A dress.
(c) A sheet on the clothesline.
(d) A bed.

3. Where did the satyr in "Ode to LA" leap to?
(a) The caverns.
(b) The pit.
(c) The loam.
(d) The arms of Morrison.

4. Where did Morrison and his friends come from in "he enters stage"?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Hell.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Far Arden.

5. 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) Song can exist.
(c) Everything.
(d) Miracles.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Morrison hope that "you" went out doing? ("Ode to LA")

4. What did the moon drip because of it being "cool and swollen"? (From the poem that began with "Moonshine night")

5. In the poem "Ode to LA", who was Morrison chosen to play?

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