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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. Who were described as having an "insane free chummy cackle"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")
(a) His music.
(b) Young lovers.
(c) Himself.
(d) Infants.

2. What, in the poem beginning "The Endless quest a vigil", state would be missed?
(a) "Nothing at all".
(b) "Everything but each other".
(c) "Nothing but each other".
(d) "All that we have missed".

3. How many drops of rain suffice when "one is not deluged by rain"? (Poem 4- "Drywater")
(a) A million.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 100.
(d) 3.

4. According to Morrison, what can poetry and songs survive that nothing else can?
(a) A war.
(b) A holocaust.
(c) A fire.
(d) A generation.

5. According to "Ode to LA" , who claimed "this benevolent soul"?
(a) The smiling God.
(b) The angel man.
(c) The Demon of Hate.
(d) The oppressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Morrison and his friends come from in "he enters stage"?

2. What was behind the nursery door? (Poem 5-"Jamaica")

3. Where did Morrison say, in the first poem of the "Drywater" section, say that men assembled at to create armies and find foes to fight?

4. In the poem "Ode to LA", who was Morrison chosen to play?

5. Who is "Wilderness" dedicated to?

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