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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, according to the fifteenth poem in the "Village Tapes" section, would happen if "the writer can write & the farmer can sow"?
(a) Song can exist.
(b) Everything.
(c) Miracles.
(d) Nothing.

2. Who led Morrison to the lake in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?
(a) A King and Queen.
(b) A lepar.
(c) A lion.
(d) A bird.

3. Who did Morrison state were his heroes?
(a) Publishers.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Artists and writers.
(d) Singers and songwriters.

4. What did Morrison say was all around him in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?
(a) Music and voices.
(b) Bodies and animals.
(c) Black and white.
(d) Trash and "trash".

5. In poem two, of the section "Jamaica", where are the Major's boots?
(a) By the highway.
(b) By the sink.
(c) In the shed.
(d) Where he left them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the man who died in the pool-in regard to him being a muse?

2. What was the brain filled with? (Poem 1- "Drywater)

3. What, according to Morrison, would it take for songs and poetry to survive?

4. What did Morrison describe "like a white funereal butterfly barge"? (Poem 5- "Jamaica")

5. What did Morrison want to be, as detailed by the poem that began "Fence my scared fire"?

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