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

2. Who did the woman beg to marry her? (Poem 3- "Drywater")
(a) The King of Beasts.
(b) The spider-king.
(c) The master of sound.
(d) The writer of poetry.

3. What was the first poem that Morrison wrote?
(a) "The Bear".
(b) "The Pony Express".
(c) "Life in School".
(d) "Superman".

4. What competed with "Silence"? ("Ode to LA")
(a) Nothing.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Everything.
(d) Woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the three-line poem, poem eighteen "Village Tapes", what did the people describe a race toward?

2. In the first sentence of the section "Far Arden", what did Morrison say they had an intense visitation of?

3. What was stolen in the poem beginning "Frozen moment by a lake"?

4. What kind of prayer did the poem call for to hope for a "strong plane landing"? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")

5. What did Morrison describe "like a white funereal butterfly barge"? (Poem 5- "Jamaica")

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