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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 the narrator want to do at the end of 'The Meeting'?

2. What rubs its hands all over the narrator in 'Spring'?

3. What wanders with the narrator in 'White Night'?

4. What dives into the storm in 'May'?

5. Where does the narrator of 'White Night' want to lose herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator in 'Something' learn the worth of after her lover dies?

2. What does the narrator of 'The Roses' compare the blooming of the roses to?

3. How does the narrator of 'The Plum Trees' say happiness must be tempted?

4. What does the narrator of 'Little Sister Pond' compare the moon to?

5. What does the narrator of 'The Roses' say there is no end to?

6. What does honey fill a person with according to the narrator of 'Honey at the Table'?

7. What does the narrator of 'Morning at Great Pond' say the coming morning renews in her at the Great Pond?

8. What is said to have happened to Tecumseh's body?

9. What sad event happens in the second part of 'Something'?

10. What does the narrator do in the second part of 'The Garden'?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in these poems. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the different natural settings included in this collection, and what did they each indicate about Oliver's personality?

Essay Topic 3

What did Oliver learn from the blue heron, and how did this change her actions?

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