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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 are the butterflies doing at the end of Seven White Butterflies?
(a) Nodding.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Sipping.
(d) Flying.

2. What does Oliver say she will remember most at the end of Spring?
(a) The light on the water.
(b) The bear's love.
(c) The deer's startled face.
(d) The mother's touch.

3. How is Oliver trying to establish the intimacy she desires in Work Sometimes?
(a) She breaks down some barriers.
(b) She has some suggestive innuendos.
(c) She is very open.
(d) She uses a conversational tone.

4. What did the animal in The Measure do when the poet tried to save it?
(a) Looked into her eye.
(b) Ran away.
(c) Bit her.
(d) Hissed at her.

5. How is How Would You Live Then formatted?
(a) Limerick form.
(b) Prose form.
(c) Sonnett form.
(d) Choral form.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Oliver describe Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?

2. In The Soul At Last, what is Oliver writing about doing?

3. In Prose Poem 1, what does Oliver say the season she talks about was full of?

4. What kind of creature did Oliver write about in Song of the Builders?

5. What are we told to examine in Everything?

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