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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 does Oliver compare picking the right words to in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
(a) Growing a garden.
(b) Threading a needle.
(c) Sorting money.
(d) Picking fruit.

2. Why does Oliver like to use her most common literary device?
(a) It is a symbolic form of writing.
(b) It broadens understanding of humans.
(c) It makes her work unique.
(d) It comes easily to her.

3. Which of these words does Oliver use to describe letters in Forty Years?
(a) Graceful.
(b) Worthy.
(c) Abrasive.
(d) Petulant.

4. What did the rain in Work Sometimes do to the flowers in the yard?
(a) Made them fragrant.
(b) Made them shine.
(c) Killed them.
(d) Brought them out of the earth.

5. What did Oliver say the woman who planted the bleeding heart plant probably got joy from in The Bleeding Heart?
(a) Simple things.
(b) Meaningful things.
(c) Productive things.
(d) Pretty things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches different from the other poems in that section?

2. What does Oliver say all narrative is in Prose Poem 2?

3. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she was born to do?

4. How does Oliver state we must pray in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?

5. What season is recalled in Prose Poem 1?

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