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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) Nightmares.
(b) Reality.
(c) The truth.
(d) Fear.

4. What did Morrison wonder about the drowned man when he was carried up to heaven?
(a) Would he fall back to earth?
(b) Would he come back as a fish?
(c) Would he stink?
(d) Would he make the trip?

5. What kind of dream was stated as being "mad stifled witness"? ("Ode to LA" )
(a) Dark.
(b) Summer.
(c) Witnessed.
(d) Chlorine.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?

2. What did Morrison describe "like a white funereal butterfly barge"? (Poem 5- "Jamaica")

3. How did Morrison describe religion in the first poem from the section named "Drywater"?

4. Where did "we" rock"? (From the poem that started "In that year")

5. What was described as "mating deep in the Western night"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")

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