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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?
(a) "No!"
(b) "Help!"
(c) "Enough!"
(d) "Midnight!"

2. What were the "great beasts" suffering from in the eleventh poem from the "Village Tapes" section?
(a) Mankind.
(b) Love.
(c) Reality.
(d) Extinction.

3. What was behind the nursery door? (Poem 5-"Jamaica")
(a) A reef.
(b) A dog house.
(c) An empty swing.
(d) An old elm tree.

4. What strangled the cliffs in the East? (Poem 1- "Village Tapes")
(a) Lovers.
(b) Houses.
(c) Nests.
(d) Birds.

5. What did Morrison compare the beak of the vulture to? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) Life.
(b) Honey.
(c) Meat.
(d) Death.

6. What did Morrison say was built up again? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")
(a) The world.
(b) The light.
(c) The dam.
(d) His hope.

7. In the three-line poem, poem eighteen "Village Tapes", what did the people describe a race toward?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

8. What did "we" do to send "our" gift into the vast promise? (Poem 2- "Village Tapes")
(a) Sing.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Scream.
(d) Cry.

9. What did the principal think was in the building? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")
(a) A dead person.
(b) A dead cat.
(c) A dead cow.
(d) A dead dog.

10. What is the metaphor that Morrison used for the "night"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")
(a) Blanket of heat.
(b) Steel machine.
(c) Shovel.
(d) Netting.

11. In the poem "Blessings", where did the ancient wisdom travel from to greet "us"?
(a) The West.
(b) The East.
(c) The South.
(d) The North.

12. What was ending at the schoolyard in the second poem in the "Drywater" section?
(a) The school day.
(b) The school year.
(c) Play rehearsal.
(d) Lunch.

13. Who did the woman beg to marry her? (Poem 3- "Drywater")
(a) The King of Beasts.
(b) The writer of poetry.
(c) The master of sound.
(d) The spider-king.

14. According to Morrison in the first poem in "Jamaica", what did grown men fear?
(a) His truths.
(b) His fears.
(c) His reality.
(d) His lies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the whore-house in the last poem of the section titled "Jamaica"?

2. What did Morrison say was "hanging on the wing of the raven" in the first poem of the section titled "Drywater"?

3. What did Morison say a child gave into? (Poem 1-"Jamaica")

4. Who did Morrison say was drinking from the swimming pool? (Poem 4-"Jamaica")

5. What was created when the phone rang at the end of the poem whose first line was "Argue w/breath")?

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