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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 in the road while the children were at church?
(a) An indian.
(b) A frog.
(c) A casket.
(d) A bird with a broken wing.

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

3. What did Morrison compare the beak of the vulture to? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) Death.
(b) Meat.
(c) Life.
(d) Honey.

4. What kind of terror were "we" in by the hollow bush? (Poem 2- "Drywater")
(a) Constant.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Watchful.
(d) Superior.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?

2. What was the brain filled with? (Poem 1- "Drywater)

3. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Morrison say America did to him? ("Jamaica")

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

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

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

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