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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Morrison describe the pictures of the boxing match? (Poem 2-"Jamaica")
(a) "Unrealistic reality".
(b) "A beating of reverse".
(c) "Period prints".
(d) "Off-color prints".

3. How did Morrison describe the "couplings out in the night", in the fourth poem from the section titled "Jamaica"?
(a) Coherent.
(b) Doubting.
(c) Bewildered.
(d) Insane.

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

5. Who was the "deaf witness on the bank" compared to? (Poem 4-"Drywater")
(a) Morrison's father.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Morrison.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did "we" awake? (Poem 2-"Drywater")

2. Who were described as having an "insane free chummy cackle"? (Poem 1-"Drywater")

3. What did Morrison say that he yelled in the poem beginning "Argue w/breath"?

4. What was the brain filled with? (Poem 1- "Drywater)

5. What, according to the third poem in the section "Drywater", what wasted and swayed forever?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the second poem from the "Drywater" section, what did Morrison say was happening in the schoolyard?

2. In the second poem of the "Village Tapes" section, Morrison claimed that pilots are a problem. Why?

3. How did Morrison describe the vultures in the poem from the section "Jamaica"?

4. What did Morrison state that children and men feared? ("Jamaica")

5. What message did Morrison claim was being sent at the end of the fourth poem in the "Drywater" section?

6. In the first poem from "The Village Tapes" section, what state is the world in?

7. In the fourth poem of the "Drywater" section, what did Morrison claim he was not?

8. What is happening in the poem "Cassandra at the Well"?

9. In the ninth poem from the "Village Tapes" section, who is Morrison looking for?

10. In the first poem of the section titled "Drywater", how did Morrison describe the night?

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