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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Village Tapes: Poems Recorded December 7, 1970.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the satyr in "Ode to LA" leap to?
(a) The pit.
(b) The caverns.
(c) The arms of Morrison.
(d) The loam.

2. What did Morrison describe the "Church of God" as existing as? (From question: "What is that church like?")
(a) Masks of reality.
(b) House of hidden truths.
(c) Worship place for the strong.
(d) White bandanas and white tambourines.

3. What did the man, who died in the pool, float on? ("Ode to LA")
(a) A slip of foam.
(b) A shadow of surrender.
(c) A plank of dreams.
(d) An iron candle.

4. How did Morrison describe the pool that the man died in?
(a) Sulfor infested.
(b) Blue abyss.
(c) Green vanity.
(d) Hot buttered.

5. What was the name of the whore-house in the last poem of the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Lord John & Lady Anne's.
(b) Dante's Inferno.
(c) Bevo's Temptation.
(d) Miss Templin's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morrison describe as having a "cold white neon bosom"? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

2. What did Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

3. How did the "Jamaica" section end?

4. What did Morrison say that the horned-toads were mavericks of?

5. What strangled the cliffs in the East? (Poem 1- "Village Tapes")

(see the answer key)

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