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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 say is possible at the beginning of Daisies?
(a) That our spirits will live forever.
(b) That we can learn all there is to learn.
(c) That we can be as wise as we wish.
(d) That we can learn the language of a flower.

2. What are most of Oliver's precious poems about?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Relationships.
(c) Plants.
(d) Abstract thoughts.

3. What does Oliver wish to be at the end of Bleeding Heart?
(a) The woman who planted the flowers.
(b) A bleeding heart.
(c) A woman who would not weep.
(d) The friend of a gardener.

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

5. What storms out of the darkness in May?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Blossoms.
(c) Frights.
(d) Thrills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Oliver trying to describe with the lilt in the words in Everything?

2. What is found by Oliver, belonging to a heron, in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?

3. In Mindful, what does Oliver say almost kills her every day?

4. What does Oliver ask the reader in The Bleeding Heart after describing the plant?

5. In While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what is the song of the bird compared to?

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