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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 did Morrison say the body would be carried up through to heaven?("Ode to LA")
(a) Halls of music.
(b) Lyrics of the soul.
(c) Waves of sound.
(d) Ghosts of music's future.

2. What is the prisoner, in "Moment of Freedom", compared to in the poem?
(a) A child.
(b) A bird.
(c) A mole.
(d) A lion.

3. In the poem "Silence of Night", what is described as being in the "starry night"?
(a) An airplane.
(b) A hawk.
(c) The waning moon.
(d) A bird.

4. What did Morrison say the "bleached sun" was needed for?
(a) A life forgotten.
(b) TV aftrenoons.
(c) Lunch by the pool.
(d) A day of dying.

5. What made wine? (Poem 15- "Village Tapes")
(a) The night.
(b) The sun.
(c) Man.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison claim to be in the second poem from the section "As I look back"?

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

3. What grade, in school, did Morrison write his first poem?

4. What were "sodden in silk"? ("Ode to LA")

5. What did Morrison say was built up again? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

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