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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. In the title poem, what is the wilderness compared to?
(a) A grand highway.
(b) A forest.
(c) A cave.
(d) A stadium.

2. Who did Morrison say to poke holes in? ("Ode to LA")
(a) The goddess.
(b) The pool liner.
(c) The death of the man.
(d) The story.

3. What strangled the cliffs in the East? (Poem 1- "Village Tapes")
(a) Lovers.
(b) Birds.
(c) Houses.
(d) Nests.

4. What did Morrison want to be, as detailed by the poem that began "Fence my scared fire"?
(a) "To be simple, black & clean."
(b) "To live open to the prospects".
(c) "To live awake and not asleep".
(d) "To live life like a god".

5. What did the principal think was in the building? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) A dead cat.
(b) A dead dog.
(c) A dead person.
(d) A dead cow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison ask the "bird of prey"? (From the poem that began the same way)

2. What did the girl in black search for in her car? (Poem 5- "Drywater")

3. What did Morrison compare savages to in "Ode to LA"?

4. 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?

5. What did the woman, in the third poem in the section titled "Drywater", take with her when she left?

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