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

2. 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.

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

4. What was the name of the whore-house in the last poem of the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Dante's Inferno.
(b) Bevo's Temptation.
(c) Lord John & Lady Anne's.
(d) Miss Templin's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was in the road while the children were at church?

2. Who was the "deaf witness on the bank" compared to? (Poem 4-"Drywater")

3. What was ending at the schoolyard in the second poem in the "Drywater" section?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the first poem from "The Village Tapes" section, what state is the world in?

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. How did Morrison describe the vultures in the poem from the section "Jamaica"?

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

6. In the poem "Science of Night", whom is Morrison addressing?

7. In the first poem of the section titled "Drywater", how did Morrison describe the night?

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

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

10. Why did Morrison ask for forgiveness from Blacks? (Poem 3- "Villages Tapes")

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