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

2. What does Oliver say always seems brighter than the present in Prose Poem 1?
(a) The past.
(b) All of these.
(c) The future.
(d) Another's life.

3. What did Oliver do at the end of Work Sometimes?
(a) Took a nap.
(b) Ran for her life.
(c) Closed her blinds.
(d) Went back to work.

4. What is Oliver trying to establish an intimacy with in Work Sometimes?
(a) Herself.
(b) A man.
(c) The reader.
(d) Her God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are cantos?

2. What are all the poems in the second section about?

3. Which of the following is NOT a word Oliver says she wants to use often in Everything?

4. How does Oliver describe the sound of snowflakes?

5. How many poems are in the first section?

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