New and Selected Poems Test | Final Test - Easy

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New and Selected Poems Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the predator in Prose Poem 2?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A hawk.
(c) A vulture.
(d) A falcon.

2. What does Oliver say is possible at the beginning of Daisies?
(a) That we can be as wise as we wish.
(b) That our spirits will live forever.
(c) That we can learn the language of a flower.
(d) That we can learn all there is to learn.

3. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being an adviser?
(a) A dog.
(b) A mockingbird.
(c) A sunflower.
(d) A memory.

4. What does Oliver compare herself to at the beginning of Mindful?
(a) A needle.
(b) A speck.
(c) A blade of grass.
(d) A figure.

5. What did Oliver say the woman who planted the bleeding heart plant probably got joy from in The Bleeding Heart?
(a) Meaningful things.
(b) Pretty things.
(c) Productive things.
(d) Simple things.

6. Which of these words does Oliver use to describe letters in Forty Years?
(a) Graceful.
(b) Worthy.
(c) Petulant.
(d) Abrasive.

7. What season is recalled in Prose Poem 1?
(a) Summer.
(b) Fall.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

8. What is the tone of While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing?
(a) Prayerful.
(b) Sarcastic.
(c) Conversational.
(d) Witty.

9. What is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?
(a) Will.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) Agency.

10. How does Oliver describe the sound of snowflakes?
(a) Soooooooooooooooooo.
(b) Gooooooooooooooo.
(c) Snoooooooooooooooo.
(d) Nooooooooooooooo.

11. What does Oliver do to the daisies at the end of Daisies?
(a) Prunes them.
(b) Plants some seeds.
(c) Touches them.
(d) Picks some.

12. What are all the poems in the second section about?
(a) Water.
(b) Animals.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Literature.

13. How is The Bleeding Heart formatted?
(a) Choral form.
(b) Limerick form.
(c) Sonnett form.
(d) Prose form.

14. What is unique about the format of On Goldenrod at Field's Edge?
(a) It is formatted in a circle.
(b) It has on-running stanzas.
(c) The stanzas run diagonally.
(d) It is in prose form.

15. In The Soul At Last, which of these does Oliver compare the soul to?
(a) Aspen leaves.
(b) Tree bark.
(c) Birds' nests.
(d) Children's prayers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver say there are miles of in May?

2. Which of these is a phrase from At Round Pond?

3. What are cantos?

4. What necessity has Oliver resigned to in Forty Years?

5. Which of these is a line from Seven White Butterflies?

(see the answer keys)

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