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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. What does Oliver describe with the words red fire in Spring?

2. What does Oliver describe as dazzling in Spring?

3. What is the prey in Prose Poem 2?

4. How long did the bleeding heart plant survive in The Bleeding Heart?

5. In Song of the Builders, where does Oliver go to think?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the questions asked in How Would You Live Then?

2. What does Oliver say we are all helping to build in Song of the Builders?

3. In While I am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what does Oliver compare the meadowlark's song to?

4. What is the overall feeling in Prose Poem 1?

5. What is Many Miles about?

6. Which authors does Oliver mention in Seven White Butterflies, and why?

7. What is the main message of Daisies?

8. What is Oliver admonishing the reader to do in How Would You Live Then?

9. In Prose Poem 2, what does Oliver say about narrative, and how does this change the feeling of the poem?

10. How does Oliver describe letters in Forty Years?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how are these instances conveyed?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do these moments affect the tone of those poems?

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