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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the man who died in the pool-in regard to him being a muse?
(a) A silken shod muse.
(b) A waxy sullen muse.
(c) A bloated risen muse.
(d) A damask musky muse.

2. According to Morrison, what can poetry and songs survive that nothing else can?
(a) A fire.
(b) A war.
(c) A generation.
(d) A holocaust.

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

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

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

6. Where did the savages fall out from in the poem "Ode to LA"?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The sky.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The falls.

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

8. How did Morrison describe the pool that the man died in?
(a) Blue abyss.
(b) Green vanity.
(c) Hot buttered.
(d) Sulfor infested.

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

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

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

12. Who resided in "meat heaven"? ("Ode to LA")
(a) The devil.
(b) Cannibals and Jews.
(c) Everyone.
(d) You and me.

13. According to the "Wilderness" dedication, what is milk compared to?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Wine.
(c) Water.
(d) Life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the satyr in "Ode to LA" leap to?

2. Where were "we" drawn down from? (From the poem that started "In that year")

3. In "Power", what color were the cars that Morrison made go away?

4. What poem did Morrison write in high school?

5. Who raced down the beach? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")

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