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

2. What are most of the poems in this collection about?
(a) Education.
(b) Literature.
(c) People.
(d) Plants and animals.

3. What did Oliver say she was outside of while writing Work Sometimes?
(a) Her authentic self.
(b) Her usual style.
(c) Her intended purpose.
(d) Her natural setting.

4. In Song of the Builders, where does Oliver go to think?
(a) A small pond.
(b) A hillside.
(c) Her bedroom.
(d) A church.

5. Which of these is a line from Spring?
(a) All night I dream of him.
(b) All winter I long for this.
(c) All day I think of her.
(d) All year I wait for this.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say she is humbled by?

2. What was singing to Oliver in Work Sometimes?

3. What does Oliver try to identify at the beginning of Work Sometimes?

4. What does Oliver call the things in life that are not human?

5. In Everything, what does Oliver compare elaboration to?

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