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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. How did the "Jamaica" section end?
(a) "Boom Boom."
(b) "Oh no."
(c) "Close your eyes."
(d) "Questions....."

2. What was the first poem that Morrison wrote?
(a) "The Pony Express".
(b) "The Bear".
(c) "Superman".
(d) "Life in School".

3. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?
(a) The chauffeured.
(b) The hopeless.
(c) The poor.
(d) The stuck.

4. What was Morrison's name?
(a) Jim Allen Morrison.
(b) Douglas Jimmy Morrison.
(c) James Douglas Morrison.
(d) Jimmy Lucas Morrison.

5. What did Morrison say was "hanging on the wing of the raven" in the first poem of the section titled "Drywater"?
(a) "Your soul".
(b) "Your meat".
(c) "Your humanity".
(d) "Your name".

Short Answer Questions

1. In the title poem, what is the wilderness compared to?

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

3. What did Morrison call blessed, in the first poem in the section "Jamaica"?

4. What did "we" do to send "our" gift into the vast promise? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")

5. What was described as "mating deep in the Western night"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")

(see the answer key)

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