View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did "we" awake? (Poem 2-"Drywater")
(a) At dusk.
(b) At noon.
(c) At midnight.
(d) Before dawn.

2. What strangled the cliffs in the East? (Poem 1- "Village Tapes")
(a) Birds.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Nests.
(d) Houses.

3. Who did Morrison say was drinking from the swimming pool? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) A cow.
(b) A dog.
(c) The principal.
(d) A cat.

4. In the poem "Blessings", where did the ancient wisdom travel from to greet "us"?
(a) The South.
(b) The North.
(c) The West.
(d) The East.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did "we" do to send "our" gift into the vast promise? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")

2. What did the woman, in the third poem in the section titled "Drywater", take with her when she left?

3. From the first poem in the section named "Jamaica", the hour of "what" ended?

4. How many drops of rain suffice when "one is not deluged by rain"? (Poem 4- "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. Who did Morrison describe in the poem "Jamaica"?

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

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

4. What did Morrison state that children and men feared? ("Jamaica")

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 735 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample