View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections II through VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say gives prayers?
(a) Brooks.
(b) Stars.
(c) Trees.
(d) Children.

4. What is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?
(a) Will.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Agency.

5. What animal is featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) A falcon.
(b) A gull.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A hawk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is distinct about the poems from West Wind?

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

3. What does Oliver say she will remember most at the end of Spring?

4. Which of these is a line from Prose Poem 1?

5. What is the name of the first section of poems in this group?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 245 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample