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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 say would make the mocker silent in Daisies?
(a) Questions.
(b) Answers.
(c) Pride.
(d) Avoidance.

2. What is Oliver's most commonly used literary device in these poems?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Anthropomorphism.
(c) Simile.
(d) Allusion.

3. In The Measure, what does the author say we must do to fully experience life?
(a) Give it a trial.
(b) Help one another.
(c) Discard safety.
(d) Think of new directions.

4. How long did the bleeding heart plant survive in The Bleeding Heart?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 30 years.

5. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she was born to do?
(a) To lose herself.
(b) All of these.
(c) To listen.
(d) To look.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver say we are building in Song of the Builders?

2. What does Oliver hope to be after her education in Mindful?

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

4. What were the eyes of the animal compared to in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?

5. Which of these is a line from Spring?

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