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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 is the main subject of Everything?
(a) Transcendance.
(b) Nature.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Love.

2. What does Oliver do to the daisies at the end of Daisies?
(a) Picks some.
(b) Prunes them.
(c) Touches them.
(d) Plants some seeds.

3. What does the editor say there is an absence of in the first section of poems?
(a) Anachronisms.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Deep analogies.
(d) Inside jokes.

4. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as hard as?
(a) Steel.
(b) Earth.
(c) Flint.
(d) Wood.

5. What kind of hands does Oliver hope to write her poetry with?
(a) Rough hands.
(b) Useful hands.
(c) Busy hands.
(d) Quiet hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the bees in May do?

2. When did the poet say the animal in The Measure had began her journey?

3. What does Oliver describe with the words red fire in Spring?

4. Which of the following does Oliver say she learns from in Mindful?

5. Which of these is a line from Seven White Butterflies?

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