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

2. What did the men, described by Morrison, wear in the poem? (Poem 1- "Jamaica")
(a) Nothing.
(b) Holy jeans.
(c) Tunics or short skirts.
(d) Robes of gold.

3. Where did the savages fall out from in the poem "Ode to LA"?
(a) The sky.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The clouds.
(d) The falls.

4. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?
(a) His reality.
(b) His fears.
(c) His truths.
(d) His lies.

5. What made wine? (Poem 15- "Village Tapes")
(a) The night.
(b) The sun.
(c) Man.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the second poem in the "Drywater" section, who was described as "winning"?

2. What, according to the third poem in the section "Drywater", what wasted and swayed forever?

3. Who resided in "meat heaven"? ("Ode to LA")

4. What did Morrison wonder about the drowned man when he was carried up to heaven?

5. What was Morrison describing in the poem under "Victimization"?

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