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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was ending at the schoolyard in the second poem in the "Drywater" section?
(a) The school year.
(b) Play rehearsal.
(c) Lunch.
(d) The school day.

2. How did Morrison describe religion in the first poem from the section named "Drywater"?
(a) Velvet furred.
(b) Hope for the hopeless.
(c) Quick to falter.
(d) A dying breed.

3. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?
(a) The hopeless.
(b) The stuck.
(c) The chauffeured.
(d) The poor.

4. What did Morrison describe the "Church of God" as existing as? (From question: "What is that church like?")
(a) Worship place for the strong.
(b) House of hidden truths.
(c) Masks of reality.
(d) White bandanas and white tambourines.

5. What did Morrison question about the body in the pool?
(a) The objectivity of which it was pulled from the pool.
(b) The smile frozen on the face.
(c) The bloated whiteness.
(d) The pale green stuff it was made of.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the moon in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?

2. What did Morrison say that he had to leave? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

3. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?

4. What did the man, who died in the pool, float on? ("Ode to LA")

5. What did Morrison state he was consumed by? (From the poem that started "In that year")

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