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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the poem "Blessings", where did the ancient wisdom travel from to greet "us"?
(a) The North.
(b) The South.
(c) The West.
(d) The East.

3. What was left "shaken in the gloom"? (Poem 3-"Drywater)
(a) The birds.
(b) The children.
(c) The concert hall.
(d) Silver.

4. How did Morrison describe religion in the first poem from the section named "Drywater"?
(a) Hope for the hopeless.
(b) Quick to falter.
(c) A dying breed.
(d) Velvet furred.

5. What did Morrison name the boxing match at the end of the poem? (Poem 2-"Jamaica")
(a) "A Consistant Battle".
(b) "A Negro Dance".
(c) "A Fight of Fear".
(d) "A Blip in Life".

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

7. Who was the "deaf witness on the bank" compared to? (Poem 4-"Drywater")
(a) God.
(b) Morrison.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Morrison's father.

8. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?
(a) "Help!"
(b) "Midnight!"
(c) "Enough!"
(d) "No!"

9. How many drops of rain suffice when "one is not deluged by rain"? (Poem 4- "Drywater")
(a) 100.
(b) 3.
(c) 3,000.
(d) A million.

10. Why did Morrison claim the night described in the tenth poem ("Village Tapes") was the "greatest night of my life"?
(a) His mother had found him again.
(b) He was with the woman he loved.
(c) His friends were with him.
(d) He was on stage for the first time.

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

12. At the end of the second poem in the "Drywater" section, who was described as "winning"?
(a) The good guys.
(b) The teachers.
(c) The bad guys.
(d) The children.

13. What was the brain filled with? (Poem 1- "Drywater)
(a) Memories.
(b) Birds.
(c) Clocks.
(d) Insanity.

14. What is the metaphor that Morrison used for the "night"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")
(a) Blanket of heat.
(b) Netting.
(c) Steel machine.
(d) Shovel.

15. What, in the poem beginning "The Endless quest a vigil", state would be missed?
(a) "Nothing at all".
(b) "All that we have missed".
(c) "Everything but each other".
(d) "Nothing but each other".

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was liquor made to flow from? (Poem 13- "Village Tapes")

2. In the poem that began "I fell on the earth", what seats were the people described as sleek and fat buckled into?

3. Who did the woman beg to marry her? (Poem 3- "Drywater")

4. What kind of tires did the people in the poem (Poem 2-"Village Tapes") ride on out of the airport?

5. What was created when the phone rang at the end of the poem whose first line was "Argue w/breath")?

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