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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Morrison claim to be able to do in "What are you doing here?"
(a) Take away life.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Everything.
(d) Give life.

2. Why did Morrison say that poetry appealed to him?
(a) Because it spoke in a way lyrics could not.
(b) Because it meant he was an artist.
(c) Becasue it was eternal.
(d) Because it was similar to music.

3. What did Morrison throw away that he kept through high school and college?
(a) Song books.
(b) Diaries.
(c) Notebooks.
(d) Journals.

4. What did Morrison compare savages to in "Ode to LA"?
(a) Monsters of rhythm.
(b) High messengers.
(c) Silent singers.
(d) Poetic versers.

5. What did Morrison describe the movement of his hands to in "Can you dig it"?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Lithe demons.
(c) Rolling snakes.
(d) Dying birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison say the "bleached sun" was needed for?

2. In the poem "Ode to LA", who was Morrison chosen to play?

3. What is the prisoner, in "Moment of Freedom", compared to in the poem?

4. Who raced down the beach? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")

5. What did Morrison say the body would be carried up through to heaven?("Ode to LA")

Short Essay Questions

1. In the poem "Power", what did Morrison claim that he could do? (Name three things).

2. In the poem "Ode to LA", what did Morrison state was going to happen to Jones' body?

3. In the poem that began "Moonshine night", what were the "young folk" doing?

4. What were the different ways that Morrison referred to Jones in "Ode to LA"?

5. Why did Morrison call an interview an "existential moment"?

6. Why did Morrison claim that an interview was a "crucial mental exercise"?

7. In the poem that began "Well I'll tell you a story of whiskey", what did Morrison say about how the "whole thing began"?

8. How did Morrison state Jones' body looked when the gardener found it?

9. In the poem that began "An angel runs", what happened when the angel ran?

10. What did Morrison state happened to the angel man in the poem "Ode to LA"?

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