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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through New Poems (2004 - 2005).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oliver try to provide multiple avenues for in her poems?
(a) Interpretation.
(b) Thought provocation.
(c) Tonality.
(d) Modality.

2. Which of these is a line from The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) How can we be as they?
(b) Where does it go and why?
(c) Where can we turn for peace?
(d) How does one see and turn away.

3. What style is Work Sometimes written in?
(a) First Person.
(b) Conversational.
(c) Second Person.
(d) Omniscient.

4. In Everything, what are we told to do in order to truly grasp the idea of poetry?
(a) Everything.
(b) The temporary.
(c) The singular.
(d) The unimportant.

5. What is the name of the first section of poems in this group?
(a) New Poems.
(b) 2004.
(c) The Begininning.
(d) First.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Oliver, what is the question mark's bold sister?

2. What kind of words does Oliver hope to find while writing in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?

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

4. In Work sometimes, which of these does Oliver list as something that happiness is NOT?

5. What are we told to examine in Everything?

(see the answer key)

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