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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 was stolen in the poem beginning "Frozen moment by a lake"?
(a) A girlfriend.
(b) A car.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

2. What kind of terror were "we" in by the hollow bush? (Poem 2- "Drywater")
(a) Watchful.
(b) Superior.
(c) Constant.
(d) Ignorant.

3. Where did Morrison and his friends come from in "he enters stage"?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Far Arden.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Hell.

4. Who did Morrison say was drinking from the swimming pool? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) A dog.
(b) A cow.
(c) A cat.
(d) The principal.

5. What did Morrison describe the "Church of God" as existing as? (From question: "What is that church like?")
(a) Worship place for the strong.
(b) House of hidden truths.
(c) Masks of reality.
(d) White bandanas and white tambourines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What passed at the end of the poem "Tape Noon"?

2. In the first poem of the book, what is left to wander?

3. In the poem "Silence of Night", what is described as being in the "starry night"?

4. 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?

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

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