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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, according to the third poem in the section "Drywater", what wasted and swayed forever?
(a) The trees.
(b) The drunk on the highway.
(c) The child mesmerized by flight.
(d) The child almost hit by a car.

2. What did Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) The truth.
(b) Reality.
(c) Nightmares.
(d) Fear.

3. At the end of the second poem in the "Drywater" section, who was described as "winning"?
(a) The children.
(b) The bad guys.
(c) The good guys.
(d) The teachers.

4. How did Morrison describe the land on the schoolyard? (Poem 2- "Drywater")
(a) Mighty.
(b) Female.
(c) Unstoppable.
(d) Hidden.

5. According to the first poem in the "Village Tapes" section, who lied?
(a) No one.
(b) The birds.
(c) The trees.
(d) All the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. In poem two, of the section "Jamaica", where are the Major's boots?

2. How did Morrison describe the "couplings out in the night", in the fourth poem from the section titled "Jamaica"?

3. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?

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

5. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What is happening in the poem "Cassandra at the Well"?

7. What did Morrison say needed to be done about the situation that the pilots were in? (Poem 2-"Village Tapes")

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

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

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

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