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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 is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?
(a) Life.
(b) Agency.
(c) Will.
(d) Death.

2. What is found by Oliver, belonging to a heron, in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
(a) An egg.
(b) A print.
(c) A nest.
(d) A feather.

3. What does Oliver envy in While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing?
(a) The youth in others.
(b) The ones who have passed on.
(c) God's power.
(d) The non-human creations.

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

5. What does Oliver describe with the words red fire in Spring?
(a) A tongue.
(b) The pain of birth.
(c) Eyes.
(d) The warmth of the sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver say we are building in Song of the Builders?

2. What does Oliver try to write most of her poems about?

3. What did Oliver say she was outside of while writing Work Sometimes?

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

5. What were the eyes of the animal compared to in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?

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