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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 are most of Oliver's precious poems about?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Abstract thoughts.
(c) Plants.
(d) Relationships.

2. How do the characters in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones feel about the events in the poem?
(a) They are frightening.
(b) They are commonplace.
(c) They are miraculaous.
(d) They are unexpected.

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

4. What does Oliver want to celebrate in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
(a) Recognition.
(b) Information.
(c) Motivation.
(d) Daily mysteries.

5. How does Oliver describe her poetry in Everything?
(a) Her message.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her art.
(d) Her creation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does the editor say there is an absence of in the first section of poems?

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

3. Which of the following is not a place Oliver says she wants to be while writing her poems in Everything?

4. Where did Oliver attend college?

5. What had stacked up on the table in Work Sometimes?

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