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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Morrison think some learned about Satan from?
(a) From the first time they had sex.
(b) From their father.
(c) From their priest.
(d) From a box.

3. What did Morrison ask the "bird of prey"? (From the poem that began the same way)
(a) "When will I stop running?"
(b) "Am I going to die?"
(c) "When will I come down to earth?"
(d) "What should I do?"

4. What was Morrison's name?
(a) Jim Allen Morrison.
(b) Douglas Jimmy Morrison.
(c) Jimmy Lucas Morrison.
(d) James Douglas Morrison.

5. Who found the body in the pool?
(a) The maid.
(b) Morrison.
(c) The gardener.
(d) The band's manager.

6. What was stolen in the poem beginning "Frozen moment by a lake"?
(a) A gun.
(b) A car.
(c) A knife.
(d) A girlfriend.

7. What grade, in school, did Morrison write his first poem?
(a) 3rd or 4th.
(b) 1st or 2nd.
(c) 5th or 6th.
(d) 7th or 8th.

8. Where did Morrison and his friends come from in "he enters stage"?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Far Arden.
(d) Hell.

9. Where did "we" rock"? (From the poem that started "In that year")
(a) On the stage.
(b) In a web.
(c) On a coaster.
(d) In a cavernous void.

10. What did Morrison state he was consumed by? (From the poem that started "In that year")
(a) Hope.
(b) Pride.
(c) Static.
(d) Aggression.

11. What did the monarch, in "I am a guide to the Labyrinth", sink into?
(a) Waste.
(b) Death.
(c) The abyss.
(d) Water.

12. What did the moon drip because of it being "cool and swollen"? (From the poem that began with "Moonshine night")
(a) Fear.
(b) Tears.
(c) Love.
(d) Liquor.

13. What passed at the end of the poem "Tape Noon"?
(a) A girl.
(b) A child.
(c) A car.
(d) A stranger.

14. What were "sodden in silk"? ("Ode to LA")
(a) Driveways.
(b) Weeds.
(c) Branches.
(d) Leaves.

15. How did Morrison describe himself in the woods? (From the poem that began with "Moonshine night")
(a) Insane.
(b) Glorious.
(c) Mad.
(d) Dehydrated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did Morrison ask the location of in "Ode to LA"?

2. What did Morrison say was all around him in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?

3. What did Morrison say an interview was similar to?

4. What did Morrison claim to be able to do in "What are you doing here?"

5. What was the first poem that Morrison wrote?

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