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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. Who, according to the second poem in the "Village Tapes" section, was hungry for steel?
(a) Birds.
(b) "We" were.
(c) The sea.
(d) Lovers.

13. What was ending at the schoolyard in the second poem in the "Drywater" section?
(a) The school year.
(b) Lunch.
(c) The school day.
(d) Play rehearsal.

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

15. What, in the poem beginning "The Endless quest a vigil", state would be missed?
(a) "All that we have missed".
(b) "Nothing at all".
(c) "Everything but each other".
(d) "Nothing but each other".

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Morrison want to be, as detailed by the poem that began "Fence my scared fire"?

4. In the poem "Silence of Night", what is described as being in the "starry night"?

5. What kind of terror were "we" in by the hollow bush? (Poem 2- "Drywater")

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