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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. How many poems are in the first section?
(a) 42.
(b) 52.
(c) 32.
(d) 22.
2. How does Oliver describe her poetry in Everything?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her message.
(c) Her creation.
(d) Her art.
3. Which of the following is a line from Work Sometimes?
(a) You have had days like this, no doubt.
(b) Desire will consume those who don't care to control.
(c) Those who know need not read longer.
(d) Sameness can be found in any landscape.
4. Why does Oliver like to use her most common literary device?
(a) It makes her work unique.
(b) It broadens understanding of humans.
(c) It comes easily to her.
(d) It is a symbolic form of writing.
5. What else does the editor say there is an absence of in the first section of poems?
(a) Allusions.
(b) Confusing similes.
(c) Obscure references.
(d) Personification.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Oliver trying to describe with the lilt in the words in Everything?
2. Where did Oliver attend college?
3. Which of the following is not a place Oliver says she wants to be while writing her poems in Everything?
4. What should one be transcending according to Everything?
5. What does Oliver say is NOT praying in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the turtle in The Measure do when Oliver stopped to help it?
2. In Work Sometimes, what are some of the things that Oliver lists as NOT leading to happiness?
3. What does Oliver say she wants to honor with her poem, Everything?
4. In Everything, where are some of the places Oliver states she wants to go when she writes?
5. In The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First, what does Mary Oliver state the real method of praying should be?
6. In The Measure, what does Oliver say happens to the lives that are watched over?
7. What is the main question Oliver asks in Work Sometimes?
8. At the end of Everything, what does Oliver say she wants her poems to do?
9. In The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First, what is the bird doing at the beginning of the poem?
10. In The Measure, how does Oliver say the turtle came to choose its course of travel for the day Oliver saw it?
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