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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 name as coinciding with a time of plenty? (Poem 4- "Drywater")
(a) Violence.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Honesty.

2. Where was liquor made to flow from? (Poem 13- "Village Tapes")
(a) He was not sure.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Borderlands.
(d) Everywhere.

3. What did Morrison say was built up again? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) The dam.
(b) The world.
(c) His hope.
(d) The light.

4. Who did Morrison call back in "Ode to LA"?
(a) Static savior.
(b) Brave warrior.
(c) Missing son.
(d) Crying child.

5. Where did Morrison say "you" are thrown back onto once "peace & books lose their charm"?
(a) "The pain of reality".
(b) "The teeth of humanity".
(c) "The grayness".
(d) "The eye of vision".

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the man who died in the pool-in regard to him being a muse?

2. What did Morrison claim to become at the end of the poem "Road Days"?

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

4. In the poem "Road Days", what did Morrison say that he feared?

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

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