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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the "couplings out in the night", in the fourth poem from the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Doubting.
(b) Bewildered.
(c) Coherent.
(d) Insane.

2. In poem one, "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say went down drains?
(a) Memories and the future.
(b) Birds and their shadows.
(c) Hopes and dreams.
(d) Drills and water.

3. In "Ode to LA", where did Morrison want the man found in the pool to do his dive at?
(a) At another time.
(b) In another pool.
(c) At an oceanfront.
(d) On another channel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many drops of rain suffice when "one is not deluged by rain"? (Poem 4- "Drywater")

2. How did Morrison describe the pool that the man died in?

3. According to the Prologue, what was the purpose of real poetry?

4. What kind of terror were "we" in by the hollow bush? (Poem 2- "Drywater")

5. What was in the road while the children were at church?

(see the answer key)

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