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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Morrison say was drinking from the swimming pool? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) The principal.
(b) A cow.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Morrison describe as having a "cold white neon bosom"? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) His lover.
(b) America.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Music.

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

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

12. 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".

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

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

15. In the three-line poem, poem eighteen "Village Tapes", what did the people describe a race toward?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) The moon.
(d) The sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the fifteenth poem in the "Village Tapes" section, would happen if "the writer can write & the farmer can sow"?

2. What was in the road while the children were at church?

3. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?

4. What did Morrison say was built up again? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

5. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?

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