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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What competed with "Silence"? ("Ode to LA")
(a) Nothing.
(b) Woman.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Everything.

2. What did the person being questioned in "What are you doing here?" want from Morison?
(a) Love.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Money.
(d) Ecstasy.

3. What did Morrison state he was consumed by? (From the poem that started "In that year")
(a) Pride.
(b) Hope.
(c) Static.
(d) Aggression.

4. According to the Prologue, what was the purpose of real poetry?
(a) "It shows reality in a colored light."
(b) "It shows the darkness inside."
(c) "It reveals a silver lining for the burned."
(d) "It just ticks off the possibilities."

5. What poem did Morrison write in high school?
(a) "Running with Steel".
(b) "A Sense of My Own".
(c) "Pride and Love".
(d) "Horse Latitudes".

6. According to the "Wilderness" dedication, what is milk compared to?
(a) Wine.
(b) Water.
(c) Oxygen.
(d) Life.

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

8. In the poem "Ode to LA", who was Morrison chosen to play?
(a) Son of God.
(b) A warden.
(c) Prince of Denmark.
(d) King of LA.

9. Who raced down the beach? (From the poem whose first line was "A vast radiant beach & a cool")
(a) Murderers.
(b) Thieves.
(c) Naked couples.
(d) Wild dogs.

10. Why did Morrison say that poetry appealed to him?
(a) Because it spoke in a way lyrics could not.
(b) Becasue it was eternal.
(c) Because it meant he was an artist.
(d) Because it was similar to music.

11. What did Morrison say the body would be carried up through to heaven?("Ode to LA")
(a) Ghosts of music's future.
(b) Waves of sound.
(c) Halls of music.
(d) Lyrics of the soul.

12. According to "Ode to LA" , who claimed "this benevolent soul"?
(a) The angel man.
(b) The oppressed.
(c) The Demon of Hate.
(d) The smiling God.

13. What did Morrison believe the self-interview was?
(a) The essence of creativity.
(b) The honesty blinded by delusions of grandeur.
(c) The truth hidden behind the eyes.
(d) The humility one never shows.

14. What passed at the end of the poem "Tape Noon"?
(a) A child.
(b) A car.
(c) A stranger.
(d) A girl.

15. How did Morrison describe himself in the woods? (From the poem that began with "Moonshine night")
(a) Mad.
(b) Glorious.
(c) Insane.
(d) Dehydrated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Morrison's name?

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

3. In the first poem of the book, what is left to wander?

4. What did the moon drip because of it being "cool and swollen"? (From the poem that began with "Moonshine night")

5. What kind of dream was stated as being "mad stifled witness"? ("Ode to LA" )

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