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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 compare savages to in "Ode to LA"?
(a) Monsters of rhythm.
(b) High messengers.
(c) Silent singers.
(d) Poetic versers.

2. What was Morrison describing in the poem under "Victimization"?
(a) A mass.
(b) An awakening.
(c) A revival.
(d) A wedding.

3. Who was the "deaf witness on the bank" compared to? (Poem 4-"Drywater")
(a) Jesus.
(b) Morrison.
(c) God.
(d) Morrison's father.

4. What did Morrison say the body would be carried up through to heaven?("Ode to LA")
(a) Waves of sound.
(b) Halls of music.
(c) Lyrics of the soul.
(d) Ghosts of music's future.

5. Who resided in "meat heaven"? ("Ode to LA")
(a) You and me.
(b) The devil.
(c) Cannibals and Jews.
(d) Everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the satyr in "Ode to LA"?

2. Who did Morrison call "poor"? ("Ode to LA")

3. In poem one, "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say went down drains?

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

5. What did the woman, in the third poem in the section titled "Drywater", take with her when she left?

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