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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the principal think was in the building? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) A dead dog.
(b) A dead cow.
(c) A dead cat.
(d) A dead person.

6. What was in the road while the children were at church?
(a) An indian.
(b) A casket.
(c) A frog.
(d) A bird with a broken wing.

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

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

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

10. Who did the woman beg to marry her? (Poem 3- "Drywater")
(a) The writer of poetry.
(b) The spider-king.
(c) The master of sound.
(d) The King of Beasts.

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

12. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?
(a) Record noise.
(b) Frenzied birds.
(c) Thunder.
(d) Voices singing.

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

14. 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.

15. What was described as "mating deep in the Western night"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")
(a) Lions and dogs.
(b) Masters and slaves.
(c) Sand and moon.
(d) Men and women.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who did Morrison say was drinking from the swimming pool? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

4. What did Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

5. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?

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