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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 we told to examine in Everything?
(a) Our motivations.
(b) Our emotions.
(c) Our needs.
(d) Our desires.

2. What does Oliver observe at the end of Work Sometimes?
(a) Nature.
(b) Literature.
(c) Desire.
(d) Humans.

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

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

5. How is the pond in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones described?
(a) Blue and billowy.
(b) Black and leafy.
(c) Deep and quiet.
(d) Small and shallow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Everything, what does Oliver compare elaboration to?

3. In The Measure, what does the author say we must do to fully experience life?

4. What is the main subject of Everything?

5. What does Oliver call the things in life that are not human?

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