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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 "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?
(a) Voices singing.
(b) Frenzied birds.
(c) Thunder.
(d) Record noise.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the poem that began "I fell on the earth", what seats were the people described as sleek and fat buckled into?

3. In poem one, "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say went down drains?

4. How many drops of rain suffice when "one is not deluged by rain"? (Poem 4- "Drywater")

5. What did the principal think was in the building? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

Short Essay Questions

1. Morrison described the appearance of the the inhabitants of the island. How did Morrison describe the appearance of the men and women? ("Jamaica")

2. What message did Morrison claim was being sent at the end of the fourth poem in the "Drywater" section?

3. In the ninth poem from the "Village Tapes" section, who is Morrison looking for?

4. In the second poem from the "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say was happening in the schoolyard?

5. In the poem from the section "Jamaica", what did Morrison describe was happening?

6. Why did Morrison have the principal of the school holding his nose? ("Jamaica")

7. In the poem that began "Blessings", what is Morrison asking readers to do?

8. What did Morrison claim that he had to leave? ("Jamaica")

9. In the fourth poem from the "Drywater" section, how did Morrison bring religious imagery into the poem?

10. In the second poem of the "Village Tapes" section, Morrison claimed that pilots are a problem. Why?

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