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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 try to identify at the beginning of Work Sometimes?
(a) An identity.
(b) A shared experience.
(c) A happy memory.
(d) A memorable moment.

2. What does the editor say there is an absence of in the first section of poems?
(a) Metaphors.
(b) Deep analogies.
(c) Anachronisms.
(d) Inside jokes.

3. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being inside walls?
(a) Honey.
(b) Secrets.
(c) Tears.
(d) Oats.

4. Which of the following is not a place Oliver says she wants to be while writing her poems in Everything?
(a) Her own house.
(b) A spot of grass.
(c) A boat at sea.
(d) A field of daisies.

5. How does Oliver use plants and animals in her poems?
(a) They are her focal point.
(b) They are her foils.
(c) They are her friends.
(d) They are her distractions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver think people should pay more attention to in life?

2. What does Oliver call the prey in Prose Poem 2?

3. What had stacked up on the table in Work Sometimes?

4. What is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?

5. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these does Oliver compare the flying butterflies to?

(see the answer key)

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