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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Far Arden.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Morrison describe the satyr in "Ode to LA"?
(a) Livid.
(b) Salty.
(c) Porky.
(d) Dark.

3. What competed with "Silence"? ("Ode to LA")
(a) Everything.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Woman.

4. What did the man, who died in the pool, float on? ("Ode to LA")
(a) An iron candle.
(b) A shadow of surrender.
(c) A slip of foam.
(d) A plank of dreams.

5. What did Morrison say that the horned-toads were mavericks of?
(a) A feast for flies.
(b) A crusader for Darwin.
(c) A yellow spot.
(d) A leap into the beyond.

Short Answer Questions

1. What passed at the end of the poem "Tape Noon"?

2. What did the ancient ones stand beside? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")

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

4. Who raced down the beach? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")

5. From the poem "The Fear", what did rabbits possess?

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