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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 Morrison say was "hanging on the wing of the raven" in the first poem of the section titled "Drywater"?
(a) "Your name".
(b) "Your soul".
(c) "Your meat".
(d) "Your humanity".

2. How did Morrison describe the young child's mind? (From the poem that began "Bird of prey")
(a) Torn between two consciousnesses.
(b) Fragile egg-shell mind.
(c) Fluttering between light and dark.
(d) Broken, paper-thin mind.

3. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?
(a) "Enough!"
(b) "Help!"
(c) "No!"
(d) "Midnight!"

4. In poem 4,"Jamaica", what did the principal hold?
(a) His nose.
(b) His eyes shut.
(c) His ears.
(d) His stomach.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What strangled the cliffs in the East? (Poem 1- "Village Tapes")

2. In "he enters stage", who was Morrison looking for?

3. In the poem "Blessings", where did the ancient wisdom travel from to greet "us"?

4. Who raced down the beach? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")

5. According to "Ode to LA" , who claimed "this benevolent soul"?

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