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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. How is the pond in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones described?
(a) Blue and billowy.
(b) Black and leafy.
(c) Deep and quiet.
(d) Small and shallow.

2. In May, what does Oliver say makes any dark place luminous?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Light.
(d) Flowers.

3. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she was born to do?
(a) To listen.
(b) To lose herself.
(c) To look.
(d) All of these.

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

5. Which of the following is a line from Work Sometimes?
(a) Sameness can be found in any landscape.
(b) Those who know need not read longer.
(c) Desire will consume those who don't care to control.
(d) You have had days like this, no doubt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver try to provide multiple avenues for in her poems?

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

3. What does Oliver compare herself to at the beginning of Mindful?

4. In Prose Poem 1, what does Oliver say the season she talks about was full of?

5. What animal is featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?

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