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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is NOT a word Oliver says she wants to use often in Everything?
2. Which of these is a line from The Measure?
3. What belongs to the animal in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
4. What are most of Oliver's precious poems about?
5. What is Oliver trying to establish an intimacy with in Work Sometimes?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones, what does Oliver ask about the blue heron?
2. What did Oliver compare the feet of the hawk to in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First?
3. In Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones, what does Oliver ask about a turtle?
4. In Everything, where are some of the places Oliver states she wants to go when she writes?
5. What did the turtle in The Measure do when Oliver stopped to help it?
6. At the end of Everything, what does Oliver say she wants her poems to do?
7. What does Oliver state the reader has probably felt before in Work Sometimes?
8. At the beginning of The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First, what does Oliver state the hawk finds joy in?
9. How did Oliver feel at the beginning of Work Sometimes and why?
10. In Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones, what does Oliver ask about a seed grain?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are some of the particular animals that were included in these poems, and what did their inclusion do to the tone of the poems?
Essay Topic 2
How does Mary Oliver change through the progression of these poems, and what causes these changes?
Essay Topic 3
Fear is a common theme in this book that is presented a number of times in a number of different poems. What are some of these instances, and how are these examples different from each other?
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