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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 are all the poems in the second section about?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Literature.
(c) Water.
(d) Animals.

2. How does Oliver describe Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
(a) A meditation.
(b) A psalm.
(c) A prayer.
(d) An observation.

3. What is the name of the first section of poems in this group?
(a) New Poems.
(b) The Begininning.
(c) 2004.
(d) First.

4. How does Oliver describe the eyes of the animal in At Round Pond?
(a) Foreboding.
(b) Trembling.
(c) Tawny.
(d) Golden.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a joy to the animal featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?

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

3. What does Oliver try to write most of her poems about?

4. What mocks Oliver in Daisies?

5. What does Oliver say she wants readers of Everything to look beyond?

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