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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 was created when the phone rang at the end of the poem whose first line was "Argue w/breath")?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Hell.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Heaven.

2. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?
(a) "Help!"
(b) "Enough!"
(c) "Midnight!"
(d) "No!"

3. 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?
(a) The men's room.
(b) The pool hall.
(c) Around the fire.
(d) The pier at the beach.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison say that he had to leave? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

2. What made wine? (Poem 15- "Village Tapes")

3. In the poem "Cassandra at the Well", what did Morrison say was happening?

4. When did "we" awake? (Poem 2-"Drywater")

5. What kind of tires did the people in the poem (Poem 2-"Village Tapes") ride on out of the airport?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the fourth poem of the "Drywater" section, what did Morrison claim he was not?

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

5. What did the poem that began "Silver shaken in the gloom" speak about?

6. Who did Morrison describe in the poem "Jamaica"?

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

8. Why did Morrison claim that "I deserve this" at the end of the final poem from the "Drywater" section?

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

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

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