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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. How did the "Jamaica" section end?
(a) "Close your eyes."
(b) "Boom Boom."
(c) "Questions....."
(d) "Oh no."
2. What was ending at the schoolyard in the second poem in the "Drywater" section?
(a) The school year.
(b) The school day.
(c) Lunch.
(d) Play rehearsal.
3. What kind of prayer did the poem call for to hope for a "strong plane landing"? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")
(a) American.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Boisterous.
(d) Consistent.
4. What was Morrison describing in the poem under "Victimization"?
(a) A mass.
(b) An awakening.
(c) A revival.
(d) A wedding.
5. What, in the poem beginning "The Endless quest a vigil", state would be missed?
(a) "Nothing but each other".
(b) "Everything but each other".
(c) "All that we have missed".
(d) "Nothing at all".
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Morrison say, in the first poem of the "Drywater" section, say that men assembled at to create armies and find foes to fight?
2. What was left "shaken in the gloom"? (Poem 3-"Drywater)
3. How many drops of rain suffice when "one is not deluged by rain"? (Poem 4- "Drywater")
4. What did Morrison name as coinciding with a time of plenty? (Poem 4- "Drywater")
5. In the poem "Blessings", where did the ancient wisdom travel from to greet "us"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Morrison claim that he had to leave? ("Jamaica")
2. How did Morrison describe the vultures in the poem from the section "Jamaica"?
3. What did Morrison say needed to be done about the situation that the pilots were in? (Poem 2-"Village Tapes")
4. What did Morrison state that children and men feared? ("Jamaica")
5. What did the poem that began "Silver shaken in the gloom" speak about?
6. In the second poem from the "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say was happening in the schoolyard?
7. In the poem "Science of Night", whom is Morrison addressing?
8. In the fourth poem of the "Drywater" section, what did Morrison claim he was not?
9. What did Morrison say America did to him? ("Jamaica")
10. Who did Morrison describe in the poem "Jamaica"?
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