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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. Who was lost in the frozen woods? ( "Why does my mind circle around you")
(a) "Your mind".
(b) "Your child".
(c) "Your dog".
(d) "Your wonder".

2. Why did Morrison claim the night described in the tenth poem ("Village Tapes") was the "greatest night of my life"?
(a) His mother had found him again.
(b) His friends were with him.
(c) He was with the woman he loved.
(d) He was on stage for the first time.

3. Who did Morrison call back in "Ode to LA"?
(a) Missing son.
(b) Crying child.
(c) Brave warrior.
(d) Static savior.

4. What did the moon drip because of it being "cool and swollen"? (From the poem that began with "Moonshine night")
(a) Liquor.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Tears.

5. What will the smell of burning leaves become for children in the future? ("A man rakes leaves into a pile")
(a) Longing.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hatred.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From the poem that began "Why does my mind circle around you", what did Morrison say wondered what it was like to be "you"?

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

4. What did the monarch, in "I am a guide to the Labyrinth", sink into?

5. What did the woman, in the third poem in the section titled "Drywater", take with her when she left?

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