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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 tone does Oliver take on at the end of Work Sometimes?
(a) Relaxing.
(b) Self-referencing.
(c) Frantic.
(d) Omniscient.

2. At the end of Mindful, what does Oliver say prayers are made of?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Water.
(c) Grass.
(d) Hopes.

3. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these authors does Oliver mention?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Donne.
(c) Dickenson.
(d) Yeats.

4. According to Oliver, what is the question mark's bold sister?
(a) The semicolon.
(b) The exclamation point.
(c) The dash.
(d) The comma.

5. Which of these is a line from Seven White Butterflies?
(a) Where would I go if I were one with them?
(b) What am I to learn from this?
(c) Why am I not with them now?
(d) Who would have thought it could be so easy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about in a painting?

2. How does the editor describe the thought put into these poems?

3. In While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what is the song of the bird compared to?

4. What does Oliver call most of her poems?

5. What did Oliver say the woman who planted the bleeding heart plant probably got joy from in The Bleeding Heart?

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