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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of prayer did the poem call for to hope for a "strong plane landing"? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")
(a) Consistent.
(b) American.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Boisterous.

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

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

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

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

9. What did Morrison call blessed, in the first poem in the section "Jamaica"?
(a) The hope.
(b) The children.
(c) The night.
(d) The life.

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

11. 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?
(a) The pool hall.
(b) Around the fire.
(c) The men's room.
(d) The pier at the beach.

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

13. 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 be simple, black & clean."
(d) "To live awake and not asleep".

14. In the fifth poem, from the section "Village Tapes", what was claimed to be real?
(a) "The Hope for the hopeless".
(b) "The Wisdom of pride".
(c) "The questions of children".
(d) "The Politics of ecstasy".

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Morrison compare the beak of the vulture to? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

3. What strangled the cliffs in the East? (Poem 1- "Village Tapes")

4. According to the first poem in the "Village Tapes" section, who lied?

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

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