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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 the editor say is Oliver's signature on her work?
(a) Her description.
(b) Her verbage.
(c) Her method.
(d) Her tone.

2. What does Oliver say she will remember most at the end of Spring?
(a) The bear's love.
(b) The light on the water.
(c) The deer's startled face.
(d) The mother's touch.

3. How long did the bleeding heart plant survive in The Bleeding Heart?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 30 years.

4. How many poems are in the first section?
(a) 22.
(b) 32.
(c) 42.
(d) 52.

5. What makes Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches different from the other poems in that section?
(a) It includes an illustration.
(b) It is in prose form.
(c) Visual separators.
(d) A lack of grammar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver envy in While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing?

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

3. What animal is featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?

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

5. In Prose Poem 1, what does Oliver say the season she talks about was full of?

(see the answer key)

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