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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did the speaker in the poem "Blessings" ask forgiveness from?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Gods.
(d) Birds.

2. How did Morrison describe the pictures of the boxing match? (Poem 2-"Jamaica")
(a) "Unrealistic reality".
(b) "Off-color prints".
(c) "Period prints".
(d) "A beating of reverse".

3. 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) Quiet.
(d) Consistent.

4. When did "we" awake? (Poem 2-"Drywater")
(a) Before dawn.
(b) At noon.
(c) At dusk.
(d) At midnight.

5. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?
(a) The chauffeured.
(b) The stuck.
(c) The hopeless.
(d) The poor.

6. In poem one, "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say went down drains?
(a) Memories and the future.
(b) Hopes and dreams.
(c) Drills and water.
(d) Birds and their shadows.

7. In the poem "Cassandra at the Well", what did Morrison say was happening?
(a) He was pushing his lover down the well.
(b) He was dying.
(c) He was wishing for life.
(d) He was throwing all of his money away.

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

9. What, according to the fifteenth poem in the "Village Tapes" section, would happen if "the writer can write & the farmer can sow"?
(a) Everything.
(b) Miracles.
(c) Song can exist.
(d) Nothing.

10. What did Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) Reality.
(b) Nightmares.
(c) The truth.
(d) Fear.

11. What, according to the third poem in the section "Drywater", what wasted and swayed forever?
(a) The drunk on the highway.
(b) The child almost hit by a car.
(c) The trees.
(d) The child mesmerized by flight.

12. What kind of terror were "we" in by the hollow bush? (Poem 2- "Drywater")
(a) Watchful.
(b) Superior.
(c) Constant.
(d) Ignorant.

13. What did the woman, in the third poem in the section titled "Drywater", take with her when she left?
(a) Silver coins.
(b) Rubies.
(c) Gold coins.
(d) Diamonds.

14. What was Morrison describing in the poem under "Victimization"?
(a) A revival.
(b) A mass.
(c) An awakening.
(d) A wedding.

15. From the first poem in the section named "Jamaica", the hour of "what" ended?
(a) The flower.
(b) The dog.
(c) The lion.
(d) The wolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was left "shaken in the gloom"? (Poem 3-"Drywater)

2. In the poem that began "Cobra sun/Fever smile", at the end, who came?

3. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?

4. What was Morrison describing when he wrote "is a silver sluice bait"? (Poem 1- "Drywater")

5. In the fifth poem, from the section "Village Tapes", what was claimed to be real?

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