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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 Morrison describe the satyr in "Ode to LA"?
(a) Livid.
(b) Salty.
(c) Porky.
(d) Dark.

2. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?
(a) Voices singing.
(b) Thunder.
(c) Record noise.
(d) Frenzied birds.

3. Who, according to the second poem in the "Village Tapes" section, was hungry for steel?
(a) Birds.
(b) The sea.
(c) "We" were.
(d) Lovers.

4. What, according to Morrison, would it take for songs and poetry to survive?
(a) Memories.
(b) Human beings.
(c) Love.
(d) Sound.

5. In the three-line poem, poem eighteen "Village Tapes", what did the people describe a race toward?
(a) The sun.
(b) Death.
(c) The moon.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison say was "hanging on the wing of the raven" in the first poem of the section titled "Drywater"?

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

3. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?

4. What did Morrison describe the "Church of God" as existing as? (From question: "What is that church like?")

5. What poem did Morrison write in high school?

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