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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who were described as having an "insane free chummy cackle"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")
(a) Himself.
(b) His music.
(c) Infants.
(d) Young lovers.

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

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

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

7. What did Morrison compare the beak of the vulture to? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) Honey.
(b) Death.
(c) Meat.
(d) Life.

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

9. In poem one, "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say went down drains?
(a) Hopes and dreams.
(b) Birds and their shadows.
(c) Memories and the future.
(d) Drills and water.

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

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

12. What kind of tires did the people in the poem (Poem 2-"Village Tapes") ride on out of the airport?
(a) Studded.
(b) Ginger.
(c) Waxy.
(d) Opium.

13. What did Morrison say was "hanging on the wing of the raven" in the first poem of the section titled "Drywater"?
(a) "Your name".
(b) "Your soul".
(c) "Your humanity".
(d) "Your meat".

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Blessings", where did the ancient wisdom travel from to greet "us"?

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

3. In the poem that began "Cobra sun/Fever smile", at the end, who came?

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

5. What did the girl in black search for in her car? (Poem 5- "Drywater")

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