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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections II through VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a phrase from At Round Pond?
(a) Need for nothing.
(b) Flight and frenzy.
(c) Flow of living.
(d) Lush of meaning.

2. What does Oliver describe with the words red fire in Spring?
(a) Eyes.
(b) A tongue.
(c) The pain of birth.
(d) The warmth of the sun.

3. How does the editor describe the thought put into these poems?
(a) Microscopic.
(b) Effervescent.
(c) Exuberant.
(d) Omniscient.

4. What else does the editor say there is an absence of in the first section of poems?
(a) Confusing similes.
(b) Personification.
(c) Allusions.
(d) Obscure references.

5. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say the tree angel is watching over?
(a) An egg.
(b) The pond.
(c) The stillness.
(d) A bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal is featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?

2. In Mindful, what kind of things does Oliver say we should lose ourselves in?

3. What does Oliver compare picking the right words to in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?

4. How many quatrains make up Forty Years?

5. Which of these is a line from Prose Poem 1?

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