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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 was Morrison when he described the night as a "moonshine night"? (From the poem that began with "Moonshine night")
(a) Mt. Village.
(b) Mt. Harmony.
(c) Mt. Addiction.
(d) Mt. Music.

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

3. How did Morrison describe the young child's mind? (From the poem that began "Bird of prey")
(a) Torn between two consciousnesses.
(b) Fragile egg-shell mind.
(c) Fluttering between light and dark.
(d) Broken, paper-thin mind.

4. What were "sodden in silk"? ("Ode to LA")
(a) Branches.
(b) Driveways.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Weeds.

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. In the title poem, what is the wilderness compared to?

2. What did the girl in black search for in her car? (Poem 5- "Drywater")

3. What, according to the fifteenth poem in the "Village Tapes" section, would happen if "the writer can write & the farmer can sow"?

4. In the first sentence of the section "Far Arden", what did Morrison say they had an intense visitation of?

5. What did Morrison say an interview was similar to?

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