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

2. Where were "we" drawn down from? (From the poem that started "In that year")
(a) A deep sleep.
(b) The unknown.
(c) A consistent high.
(d) Heaven.

3. In poem two, of the section "Jamaica", where are the Major's boots?
(a) Where he left them.
(b) By the sink.
(c) In the shed.
(d) By the highway.

4. What did Morrison say was a child's first moment of freedom?
(a) When their mother quit breast-feeding.
(b) A first trip away from home.
(c) When they were able to speak.
(d) The first time a child crossed the street alone.

5. What, in the poem beginning "The Endless quest a vigil", state would be missed?
(a) "Nothing at all".
(b) "Everything but each other".
(c) "All that we have missed".
(d) "Nothing but each other".

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Morrison describe the moon in the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool"?

2. What did Morrison question about the body in the pool?

3. In the poem "Ode to LA", who was Morrison chosen to play?

4. According to Morrison, what can poetry and songs survive that nothing else can?

5. From the first poem in the section named "Jamaica", the hour of "what" ended?

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