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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. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being an adviser?
(a) A memory.
(b) A sunflower.
(c) A mockingbird.
(d) A dog.

2. What belongs to the animal in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) The heavens.
(b) The life it has claimed.
(c) The water.
(d) The earth and sky.

3. Which of these is a line from The Bleeding Heart?
(a) What has become of her.
(b) Where could that have gone?
(c) I think that was true.
(d) I wish that I were her.

4. What is Oliver's most commonly used literary device in these poems?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Anthropomorphism.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Simile.

5. What does using nature in her poems allow Oliver to do?
(a) Open minds.
(b) Accept responsibility.
(c) Set forth an interpretation.
(d) Broaden her range.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Oliver say Everything first came to her?

2. How was the poet traveling when she saw an animal in The Measure?

3. How is The Bleeding Heart formatted?

4. In Mindful, what kind of things does Oliver say we should lose ourselves in?

5. What animal was featured in The Measure?

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