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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Morrison describe "like a white funereal butterfly barge"? (Poem 5- "Jamaica")
(a) A mirror.
(b) A bed.
(c) A dress.
(d) A sheet on the clothesline.

2. What is the prisoner, in "Moment of Freedom", compared to in the poem?
(a) A mole.
(b) A bird.
(c) A lion.
(d) A child.

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

4. What did Morrison hope that "you" went out doing? ("Ode to LA")
(a) Yelling like the insane.
(b) Roaring like a lion.
(c) Screaming like an owl.
(d) Smiling like a child.

5. What, according to the third poem in the section "Drywater", what wasted and swayed forever?
(a) The child mesmerized by flight.
(b) The child almost hit by a car.
(c) The trees.
(d) The drunk on the highway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dream was stated as being "mad stifled witness"? ("Ode to LA" )

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

3. How did the "Jamaica" section end?

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

5. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?

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