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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Morrison compare the beak of the vulture to? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) Life.
(b) Death.
(c) Honey.
(d) Meat.
2. What strangled the cliffs in the East? (Poem 1- "Village Tapes")
(a) Houses.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Nests.
(d) Birds.
3. What did Morrison say that he had to leave? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) The island.
(b) The galaxy.
(c) The world.
(d) The earth.
4. What was the name of the whore-house in the last poem of the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Bevo's Temptation.
(b) Miss Templin's.
(c) Lord John & Lady Anne's.
(d) Dante's Inferno.
5. In the poem "Cassandra at the Well", what did Morrison say was happening?
(a) He was wishing for life.
(b) He was dying.
(c) He was pushing his lover down the well.
(d) He was throwing all of his money away.
6. What was described as "mating deep in the Western night"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")
(a) Sand and moon.
(b) Lions and dogs.
(c) Men and women.
(d) Masters and slaves.
7. What did Morrison describe the "Church of God" as existing as? (From question: "What is that church like?")
(a) White bandanas and white tambourines.
(b) House of hidden truths.
(c) Masks of reality.
(d) Worship place for the strong.
8. How did Morrison describe the "couplings out in the night", in the fourth poem from the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Bewildered.
(b) Coherent.
(c) Doubting.
(d) Insane.
9. In poem two, of the section "Jamaica", where are the Major's boots?
(a) By the highway.
(b) In the shed.
(c) By the sink.
(d) Where he left them.
10. What kind of prayer did the poem call for to hope for a "strong plane landing"? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")
(a) American.
(b) Boisterous.
(c) Consistent.
(d) Quiet.
11. In the three-line poem, poem eighteen "Village Tapes", what did the people describe a race toward?
(a) Life.
(b) Death.
(c) The moon.
(d) The sun.
12. Where did Morrison say, in the first poem of the "Drywater" section, say that men assembled at to create armies and find foes to fight?
(a) The pier at the beach.
(b) Around the fire.
(c) The men's room.
(d) The pool hall.
13. What kind of terror were "we" in by the hollow bush? (Poem 2- "Drywater")
(a) Watchful.
(b) Superior.
(c) Constant.
(d) Ignorant.
14. What was the brain filled with? (Poem 1- "Drywater)
(a) Birds.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Memories.
(d) Clocks.
15. In poem 4,"Jamaica", what did the principal hold?
(a) His nose.
(b) His ears.
(c) His eyes shut.
(d) His stomach.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the girl in black search for in her car? (Poem 5- "Drywater")
2. In the poem "Blessings", where did the ancient wisdom travel from to greet "us"?
3. What made wine? (Poem 15- "Village Tapes")
4. What was Morrison describing when he wrote "is a silver sluice bait"? (Poem 1- "Drywater")
5. What, in the poem beginning "The Endless quest a vigil", state would be missed?
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