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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. What did Morrison describe the movement of his hands to in "Can you dig it"?
(a) Rolling snakes.
(b) Lithe demons.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Dying birds.

2. How did Morrison describe the night in the poem that started "In that year"?
(a) An infinite number of stars lighting the land.
(b) Moonlit.
(c) Void of stars.
(d) Radio dark.

3. What did Morrison say was all around him in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?
(a) Music and voices.
(b) Trash and "trash".
(c) Black and white.
(d) Bodies and animals.

4. How did the "Jamaica" section end?
(a) "Close your eyes."
(b) "Questions....."
(c) "Oh no."
(d) "Boom Boom."

5. According to the first poem in the "Village Tapes" section, who lied?
(a) No one.
(b) All the world.
(c) The trees.
(d) The birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the "couplings out in the night", in the fourth poem from the section titled "Jamaica"?

2. What will the smell of burning leaves become for children in the future? ("A man rakes leaves into a pile")

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

4. What did Morrison say that the interview was?

5. What city did Morrison ask the location of in "Ode to LA"?

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