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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. Which of these is a line from The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) How does one see and turn away.
(b) Where can we turn for peace?
(c) How can we be as they?
(d) Where does it go and why?

2. What does Oliver say she wants readers of Everything to look beyond?
(a) The page.
(b) The lines.
(c) The words.
(d) The meaning.

3. Which of these is a line from Prose Poem 1?
(a) How hopeful we were.
(b) How strong is the stillness.
(c) We just knew not.
(d) Never will we know for sure.

4. What kind of citizen did the poet call the animal in The Measure?
(a) Shy.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Elderly.
(d) Voracious.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Oliver's most commonly used literary device in these poems?

2. What does Oliver say is possible at the beginning of Daisies?

3. What does Oliver call most of her poems?

4. How many poems are in the first section?

5. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these authors does Oliver mention?

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