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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 many poems are in the first section?
(a) 22.
(b) 52.
(c) 32.
(d) 42.

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

3. Which of these is a line from The Measure?
(a) No, not now.
(b) Hush, be still.
(c) What shall we do?
(d) Ah, it's time.

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

5. How does Oliver describe the sound of snowflakes?
(a) Gooooooooooooooo.
(b) Snoooooooooooooooo.
(c) Soooooooooooooooooo.
(d) Nooooooooooooooo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Oliver say Everything first came to her?

2. What does Oliver describe as dazzling in Spring?

3. What is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?

4. In May, what does Oliver say makes any dark place luminous?

5. What does Oliver call the things in life that are not human?

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