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

2. How did Morrison describe the pool that the man died in?
(a) Hot buttered.
(b) Sulfor infested.
(c) Blue abyss.
(d) Green vanity.

3. How did Morrison describe the laughter he had on the beach? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")
(a) Loud and insane.
(b) Quiet and confined.
(c) Intense and full of power.
(d) Soft and mad.

4. What did the monarch, in "I am a guide to the Labyrinth", sink into?
(a) Death.
(b) Water.
(c) Waste.
(d) The abyss.

5. According to "Ode to LA" , who claimed "this benevolent soul"?
(a) The oppressed.
(b) The angel man.
(c) The Demon of Hate.
(d) The smiling God.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who was lost in the frozen woods? ( "Why does my mind circle around you")

3. What did Morrison say the "bleached sun" was needed for?

4. Who competed for the man's palms? ("Ode to LA")

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

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