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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. According to the first poem in "Jamaica", who drove through the suburbs?
(a) The hopeless.
(b) The poor.
(c) The chauffeured.
(d) The stuck.

2. In the poem that began "I fell on the earth", what seats were the people described as sleek and fat buckled into?
(a) Bus seats.
(b) Airplane seats.
(c) Train seats.
(d) Car seats.

3. In poem 4,"Jamaica", what did the principal hold?
(a) His eyes shut.
(b) His ears.
(c) His nose.
(d) His stomach.

4. What "stunned the earth" in the second poem of the "Drywater" section?
(a) Record noise.
(b) Thunder.
(c) Frenzied birds.
(d) Voices singing.

5. Who, according to the second poem in the "Village Tapes" section, was hungry for steel?
(a) Birds.
(b) "We" were.
(c) Lovers.
(d) The sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many drops of rain suffice when "one is not deluged by rain"? (Poem 4- "Drywater")

2. What kind of tires did the people in the poem (Poem 2-"Village Tapes") ride on out of the airport?

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

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

5. What did Morrison say was built up again? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

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 state that children and men feared? ("Jamaica")

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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