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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Village Tapes: Poems Recorded December 7, 1970.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the night in the poem that started "In that year"?
(a) An infinite number of stars lighting the land.
(b) Radio dark.
(c) Void of stars.
(d) Moonlit.

2. According to the "Wilderness" dedication, what is milk compared to?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Wine.
(c) Life.
(d) Water.

3. In the poem that began "I fell on the earth", what seats were the people described as sleek and fat buckled into?
(a) Airplane seats.
(b) Train seats.
(c) Bus seats.
(d) Car seats.

4. In the three-line poem, poem eighteen "Village Tapes", what did the people describe a race toward?
(a) The sun.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) The moon.

5. Who led Morrison to the lake in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?
(a) A lepar.
(b) A King and Queen.
(c) A bird.
(d) A lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison compare the beak of the vulture to? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

2. What did Morrison name the boxing match at the end of the poem? (Poem 2-"Jamaica")

3. Where did Morrison say, in the first poem of the "Drywater" section, say that men assembled at to create armies and find foes to fight?

4. What is the metaphor that Morrison used for the "night"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")

5. What did Morrison say was all around him in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?

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