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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 does Oliver hope to show about the world in her poems?
(a) What is becoming of the world.
(b) How the world works.
(c) How to navigate through the world.
(d) Where the world has been.

2. What is Oliver trying to describe with the lilt in the words in Everything?
(a) Creation.
(b) Gravity.
(c) Human Nature.
(d) Choices.

3. What color were the eyes of the animal in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blue.

4. What animal is featured in At Round Pond?
(a) A cougar.
(b) A skunk.
(c) An owl.
(d) A beaver.

5. What had stacked up on the table in Work Sometimes?
(a) Papers.
(b) Books.
(c) Work.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main subject of Everything?

2. Where did Oliver attend college?

3. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these does Oliver compare the flying butterflies to?

4. What is the tone of While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing?

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

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