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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In poem 4,"Jamaica", what did the principal hold?
(a) His nose.
(b) His stomach.
(c) His eyes shut.
(d) His ears.

2. How did Morrison describe the pictures of the boxing match? (Poem 2-"Jamaica")
(a) "Period prints".
(b) "Unrealistic reality".
(c) "A beating of reverse".
(d) "Off-color prints".

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

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

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

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

7. What did Morrison describe "like a white funereal butterfly barge"? (Poem 5- "Jamaica")
(a) A dress.
(b) A sheet on the clothesline.
(c) A bed.
(d) A mirror.

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

9. In the poem that began "I fell on the earth", what seats were the people described as sleek and fat buckled into?
(a) Train seats.
(b) Airplane seats.
(c) Bus seats.
(d) Car seats.

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

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

12. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?
(a) The poor.
(b) The hopeless.
(c) The stuck.
(d) The chauffeured.

13. What was the brain filled with? (Poem 1- "Drywater)
(a) Clocks.
(b) Memories.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Birds.

14. How did Morrison describe religion in the first poem from the section named "Drywater"?
(a) Hope for the hopeless.
(b) Quick to falter.
(c) A dying breed.
(d) Velvet furred.

15. What, according to the fifteenth poem in the "Village Tapes" section, would happen if "the writer can write & the farmer can sow"?
(a) Miracles.
(b) Everything.
(c) Song can exist.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was ending at the schoolyard in the second poem in the "Drywater" section?

4. Who was the "deaf witness on the bank" compared to? (Poem 4-"Drywater")

5. In the three-line poem, poem eighteen "Village Tapes", what did the people describe a race toward?

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