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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. In the poem "Cassandra at the Well", what did Morrison say was happening?
(a) He was dying.
(b) He was throwing all of his money away.
(c) He was wishing for life.
(d) He was pushing his lover down the well.

2. In the fifth poem, from the section "Village Tapes", what was claimed to be real?
(a) "The Politics of ecstasy".
(b) "The Hope for the hopeless".
(c) "The questions of children".
(d) "The Wisdom of pride".

3. What did Morrison claim to be able to do in "What are you doing here?"
(a) Nothing.
(b) Everything.
(c) Take away life.
(d) Give life.

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. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?
(a) Record noise.
(b) Voices singing.
(c) Frenzied birds.
(d) Thunder.

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 Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

3. How did Morrison describe the "couplings out in the night", in the fourth poem from the section titled "Jamaica"?

4. How did Morrison describe the night in the poem that started "In that year"?

5. What did Morrison describe himself as in the poem beginning "Frozen moment by a lake"?

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