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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. When did "we" awake? (Poem 2-"Drywater")
(a) At noon.
(b) Before dawn.
(c) At midnight.
(d) At dusk.

2. What was the brain filled with? (Poem 1- "Drywater)
(a) Memories.
(b) Clocks.
(c) Birds.
(d) Insanity.

3. What did Morrison say the "bleached sun" was needed for?
(a) A day of dying.
(b) A life forgotten.
(c) TV aftrenoons.
(d) Lunch by the pool.

4. What, in the poem beginning "The Endless quest a vigil", state would be missed?
(a) "Nothing but each other".
(b) "Nothing at all".
(c) "All that we have missed".
(d) "Everything but each other".

5. In the title poem, what is the wilderness compared to?
(a) A forest.
(b) A grand highway.
(c) A stadium.
(d) A cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Morrison's name?

2. What did the person being questioned in "What are you doing here?" want from Morison?

3. What did Morrison want to be, as detailed by the poem that began "Fence my scared fire"?

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

5. What did Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

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