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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, according to the fifteenth poem in the "Village Tapes" section, would happen if "the writer can write & the farmer can sow"?
(a) Song can exist.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Miracles.
(d) Everything.

2. What, according to Morrison, would it take for songs and poetry to survive?
(a) Love.
(b) Memories.
(c) Sound.
(d) Human beings.

3. What was Morrison describing when he wrote "is a silver sluice bait"? (Poem 1- "Drywater")
(a) A fishing line.
(b) The beginning to a song.
(c) A hangman's noose.
(d) Walking onto stage.

4. Why did Morrison say that poetry appealed to him?
(a) Because it was similar to music.
(b) Becasue it was eternal.
(c) Because it spoke in a way lyrics could not.
(d) Because it meant he was an artist.

5. In "he enters stage", who was Morrison looking for?
(a) His sister.
(b) His manager.
(c) His lover.
(d) His dead friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison name as coinciding with a time of plenty? (Poem 4- "Drywater")

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

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

4. What did the woman, in the third poem in the section titled "Drywater", take with her when she left?

5. What did Morrison hope that "you" went out doing? ("Ode to LA")

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