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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through As I Look Back, Afterward.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was described as being what it should be: "a girl, a bottle, & blessed sleep"? ("Road Days")
(a) Dawn.
(b) Noon.
(c) Day.
(d) Night.

2. In "Ode to LA", where did Morrison want the man found in the pool to do his dive at?
(a) At an oceanfront.
(b) In another pool.
(c) On another channel.
(d) At another time.

3. What was described as "mating deep in the Western night"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")
(a) Men and women.
(b) Lions and dogs.
(c) Masters and slaves.
(d) Sand and moon.

4. What did Morrison claim to be able to do in "What are you doing here?"
(a) Nothing.
(b) Take away life.
(c) Everything.
(d) Give life.

5. Who competed for the man's palms? ("Ode to LA")
(a) Serpents.
(b) Angels.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Demons.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, what can poetry and songs survive that nothing else can?

2. What was ending at the schoolyard in the second poem in the "Drywater" section?

3. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?

4. What did Morrison call the man who died in the pool in the stanza after the description of the body being found?

5. How did the "Jamaica" section end?

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