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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 grade, in school, did Morrison write his first poem?
(a) 7th or 8th.
(b) 3rd or 4th.
(c) 1st or 2nd.
(d) 5th or 6th.

2. What did Morrison claim to be able to do in "What are you doing here?"
(a) Everything.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Take away life.
(d) Give life.

3. What, according to the third poem in the section "Drywater", what wasted and swayed forever?
(a) The child almost hit by a car.
(b) The drunk on the highway.
(c) The trees.
(d) The child mesmerized by flight.

4. In poem 4,"Jamaica", what did the principal hold?
(a) His nose.
(b) His eyes shut.
(c) His stomach.
(d) His ears.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the principal think was in the building? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

2. What kind of dream was stated as being "mad stifled witness"? ("Ode to LA" )

3. In the fifth poem, from the section "Village Tapes", what was claimed to be real?

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

5. How did Morrison describe the moon in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?

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