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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?
(a) His lies.
(b) His truths.
(c) His reality.
(d) His fears.

2. According to the first poem in the "Village Tapes" section, who lied?
(a) The birds.
(b) No one.
(c) The trees.
(d) All the world.

3. In poem two, of the section "Jamaica", where are the Major's boots?
(a) Where he left them.
(b) By the highway.
(c) By the sink.
(d) In the shed.

4. What was created when the phone rang at the end of the poem whose first line was "Argue w/breath")?
(a) Hell.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Midnight.

5. How did Morrison describe the land on the schoolyard? (Poem 2- "Drywater")
(a) Mighty.
(b) Female.
(c) Unstoppable.
(d) Hidden.

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

7. What were the "great beasts" suffering from in the eleventh poem from the "Village Tapes" section?
(a) Extinction.
(b) Love.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Reality.

8. What did "we" do to send "our" gift into the vast promise? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")
(a) Sing.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Scream.
(d) Cry.

9. What did Morrison compare the beak of the vulture to? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) Life.
(b) Meat.
(c) Death.
(d) Honey.

10. What was behind the nursery door? (Poem 5-"Jamaica")
(a) A reef.
(b) An old elm tree.
(c) An empty swing.
(d) A dog house.

11. What did the men, described by Morrison, wear in the poem? (Poem 1- "Jamaica")
(a) Nothing.
(b) Holy jeans.
(c) Tunics or short skirts.
(d) Robes of gold.

12. What did Morrison want to be, as detailed by the poem that began "Fence my scared fire"?
(a) "To be simple, black & clean."
(b) "To live awake and not asleep".
(c) "To live open to the prospects".
(d) "To live life like a god".

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

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

15. What strangled the cliffs in the East? (Poem 1- "Village Tapes")
(a) Birds.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Nests.
(d) Houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the first poem in the section named "Jamaica", the hour of "what" ended?

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

3. 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?

4. Where did the people in the poem think they might be? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")

5. What did Morrison say was "hanging on the wing of the raven" in the first poem of the section titled "Drywater"?

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