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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 is the name of the first section of poems in this group?
(a) 2004.
(b) First.
(c) The Begininning.
(d) New Poems.

2. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being an adviser?
(a) A sunflower.
(b) A dog.
(c) A mockingbird.
(d) A memory.

3. Which of these is a line from The Bleeding Heart?
(a) What has become of her.
(b) Where could that have gone?
(c) I wish that I were her.
(d) I think that was true.

4. What does Oliver try to provide multiple avenues for in her poems?
(a) Interpretation.
(b) Thought provocation.
(c) Tonality.
(d) Modality.

5. What does Oliver wish to be at the end of Bleeding Heart?
(a) The woman who planted the flowers.
(b) The friend of a gardener.
(c) A bleeding heart.
(d) A woman who would not weep.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines is Prose Poem 1?

2. What are we told to examine in Everything?

3. What does the editor say is Oliver's signature on her work?

4. Which of these is a phrase from At Round Pond?

5. How is the pond in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones described?

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