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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 the monarch, in "I am a guide to the Labyrinth", sink into?
(a) Waste.
(b) Death.
(c) The abyss.
(d) Water.

2. What did Morrison name as coinciding with a time of plenty? (Poem 4- "Drywater")
(a) Violence.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Surrender.

3. What was Morrison describing in the poem under "Victimization"?
(a) A revival.
(b) An awakening.
(c) A mass.
(d) A wedding.

4. Who found the body in the pool?
(a) The band's manager.
(b) The gardener.
(c) The maid.
(d) Morrison.

5. In poem one, "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say went down drains?
(a) Drills and water.
(b) Birds and their shadows.
(c) Memories and the future.
(d) Hopes and dreams.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the poem that began "Cobra sun/Fever smile", at the end, who came?

3. How did Morrison describe the land on the schoolyard? (Poem 2- "Drywater")

4. Where was Morrison when he described the night as a "moonshine night"? (From the poem that began with "Moonshine night")

5. Who did Morrison say was drinking from the swimming pool? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

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