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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 did the men, described by Morrison, wear in the poem? (Poem 1- "Jamaica")
(a) Nothing.
(b) Holy jeans.
(c) Tunics or short skirts.
(d) Robes of gold.

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

3. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?
(a) His fears.
(b) His truths.
(c) His lies.
(d) His reality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How did Morrison describe the land on the schoolyard? (Poem 2- "Drywater")

4. In the fifth poem, from the section "Village Tapes", what was claimed to be real?

5. What did Morrison say was "hanging on the wing of the raven" in the first poem of the section titled "Drywater"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Morrison say mated? ("Drywater")

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

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

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

8. Why did Morrison have the principal of the school holding his nose? ("Jamaica")

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

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

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