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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What made wine? (Poem 15- "Village Tapes")
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) The night.
(d) The sun.

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

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

5. How did the "Jamaica" section end?
(a) "Questions....."
(b) "Boom Boom."
(c) "Oh no."
(d) "Close your eyes."

6. How did Morrison describe the "couplings out in the night", in the fourth poem from the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Bewildered.
(b) Doubting.
(c) Insane.
(d) Coherent.

7. What kind of tires did the people in the poem (Poem 2-"Village Tapes") ride on out of the airport?
(a) Studded.
(b) Opium.
(c) Ginger.
(d) Waxy.

8. What did Morrison say that he had to leave? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) The island.
(b) The earth.
(c) The world.
(d) The galaxy.

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

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

11. In the poem "Silence of Night", what is described as being in the "starry night"?
(a) The waning moon.
(b) A hawk.
(c) An airplane.
(d) A bird.

12. What did Morrison say was built up again? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) The light.
(b) The world.
(c) His hope.
(d) The dam.

13. In the poem that began "Cobra sun/Fever smile", at the end, who came?
(a) God.
(b) Death.
(c) America.
(d) Asia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Morrison describe the "Church of God" as existing as? (From question: "What is that church like?")

3. When did "we" awake? (Poem 2-"Drywater")

4. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?

5. How did Morrison describe the pictures of the boxing match? (Poem 2-"Jamaica")

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