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

2. What was singing to Oliver in Work Sometimes?
(a) The wind.
(b) Street cars.
(c) Robins.
(d) The radio.

3. What had stacked up on the table in Work Sometimes?
(a) Books.
(b) Papers.
(c) All of these.
(d) Work.

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

5. In Everything, what are we told to look to for examination?
(a) Ourselves.
(b) Our goals.
(c) Our surroundings.
(d) Our God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver compare picking the right words to in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?

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

3. What is Oliver's most commonly used literary device in these poems?

4. What does the editor say Oliver is NOT trying to do with the poems in the first section?

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

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