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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) Basic.
(b) Imaginative.
(c) Adorned.
(d) Descriptive.

2. In Song of the Builders, where does Oliver go to think?
(a) Her bedroom.
(b) A small pond.
(c) A hillside.
(d) A church.

3. What are all the poems in the second section about?
(a) Literature.
(b) Water.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Animals.

4. Which of the following is not a place Oliver says she wants to be while writing her poems in Everything?
(a) Her own house.
(b) A field of daisies.
(c) A boat at sea.
(d) A spot of grass.

5. In Work sometimes, which of these does Oliver list as something that happiness is NOT?
(a) The need to push onward.
(b) A town on a map.
(c) A trip to an aunt.
(d) Work ongoing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as soft as?

2. What does Oliver call the center of the daisies in Daisies?

3. Which of these words does Oliver use to describe letters in Forty Years?

4. In Mindful, what does Oliver say almost kills her every day?

5. When did the poet say the animal in The Measure had began her journey?

(see the answer key)

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