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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 does the editor describe the language in the first section of poems?
(a) Imaginative.
(b) Descriptive.
(c) Basic.
(d) Adorned.

2. What does Oliver compare herself to at the beginning of Mindful?
(a) A figure.
(b) A speck.
(c) A blade of grass.
(d) A needle.

3. Which of these is a line from Spring?
(a) All night I dream of him.
(b) All day I think of her.
(c) All winter I long for this.
(d) All year I wait for this.

4. How does Oliver describe the eyes of the animal in At Round Pond?
(a) Golden.
(b) Tawny.
(c) Foreboding.
(d) Trembling.

5. What did the animal in The Measure do when the poet tried to save it?
(a) Ran away.
(b) Hissed at her.
(c) Looked into her eye.
(d) Bit her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver do to the daisies at the end of Daisies?

2. How does the editor describe the thought put into these poems?

3. In The Soul At Last, which of these does Oliver say the composition of the soul is like?

4. What was a joy to the animal featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?

5. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say the tree angel is watching over?

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