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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 subject of Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
(a) Personal identity.
(b) Motivations.
(c) Literature.
(d) Nature.

2. How does Oliver use plants and animals in her poems?
(a) They are her friends.
(b) They are her foils.
(c) They are her distractions.
(d) They are her focal point.

3. Why does Oliver like to use her most common literary device?
(a) It makes her work unique.
(b) It broadens understanding of humans.
(c) It comes easily to her.
(d) It is a symbolic form of writing.

4. Which of these is a line from The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) Where can we turn for peace?
(b) How can we be as they?
(c) How does one see and turn away.
(d) Where does it go and why?

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the predator in Prose Poem 2?

2. What did the animal in The Measure do when the poet tried to save it?

3. What does Oliver do to the daisies at the end of Daisies?

4. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being an adviser?

5. What makes Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches different from the other poems in that section?

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