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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections II through VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oliver want to celebrate in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
(a) Information.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Motivation.
(d) Daily mysteries.

2. What else does the editor say there is an absence of in the first section of poems?
(a) Obscure references.
(b) Confusing similes.
(c) Allusions.
(d) Personification.

3. In Everything, what does Oliver compare elaboration to?
(a) Striped canes.
(b) Puffed sleeves.
(c) Vests with ties.
(d) Frills and lace.

4. How does Oliver describe H's in Forty Years?
(a) Harsh.
(b) Soldierly.
(c) Hidden.
(d) Inconsistent.

5. When did the poet say the animal in The Measure had began her journey?
(a) Shortly before she appeared.
(b) In the middle of the night.
(c) In the early morning.
(d) When she was first born.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a line from Work Sometimes?

2. Why does Oliver like to use her most common literary device?

3. How does Oliver say Everything first came to her?

4. What did Oliver say she was outside of while writing Work Sometimes?

5. How is the animal featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First described in the first lines?

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