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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. Who did the speaker in the poem "Blessings" ask forgiveness from?
(a) Birds.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Gods.
2. What was the name of the whore-house in the last poem of the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Bevo's Temptation.
(b) Dante's Inferno.
(c) Miss Templin's.
(d) Lord John & Lady Anne's.
3. What, according to the third poem in the section "Drywater", what wasted and swayed forever?
(a) The trees.
(b) The child almost hit by a car.
(c) The child mesmerized by flight.
(d) The drunk on the highway.
4. In the poem "Silence of Night", what is described as being in the "starry night"?
(a) The waning moon.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A bird.
(d) A hawk.
5. What did Morrison say was "hanging on the wing of the raven" in the first poem of the section titled "Drywater"?
(a) "Your name".
(b) "Your meat".
(c) "Your humanity".
(d) "Your soul".
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of prayer did the poem call for to hope for a "strong plane landing"? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")
2. What did Morrison describe as having a "cold white neon bosom"? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
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?
4. What did the men, described by Morrison, wear in the poem? (Poem 1- "Jamaica")
5. What was in the road while the children were at church?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the poem that began "Silver shaken in the gloom" speak about?
2. In the second poem from the "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say was happening in the schoolyard?
3. In the fourth poem of the "Drywater" section, what did Morrison claim he was not?
4. What did Morrison say mated? ("Drywater")
5. In the second poem of the "Village Tapes" section, Morrison claimed that pilots are a problem. Why?
6. In the poem "Science of Night", whom is Morrison addressing?
7. In the first poem from "The Village Tapes" section, what state is the world in?
8. Why did Morrison ask for forgiveness from Blacks? (Poem 3- "Villages Tapes")
9. What did Morrison say needed to be done about the situation that the pilots were in? (Poem 2-"Village Tapes")
10. In the first poem of the section titled "Drywater", how did Morrison describe the night?
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