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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Poems 1966-1971.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the person being questioned in "What are you doing here?" want from Morison?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Money.
(c) Love.
(d) Ecstasy.

2. Where did Morrison and his friends come from in "he enters stage"?
(a) Far Arden.
(b) Hell.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Heaven.

3. According to the Prologue, what was the purpose of real poetry?
(a) "It just ticks off the possibilities."
(b) "It shows the darkness inside."
(c) "It shows reality in a colored light."
(d) "It reveals a silver lining for the burned."

4. What did Morrison throw away that he kept through high school and college?
(a) Diaries.
(b) Notebooks.
(c) Song books.
(d) Journals.

5. What poem did Morrison write in high school?
(a) "Horse Latitudes".
(b) "A Sense of My Own".
(c) "Pride and Love".
(d) "Running with Steel".

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison describe the movement of his hands to in "Can you dig it"?

2. Where did Morrison think some learned about Satan from?

3. What did the monarch, in "I am a guide to the Labyrinth", sink into?

4. What did Morrison say was a child's first moment of freedom?

5. According to Morrison, what can poetry and songs survive that nothing else can?

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