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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 necessity has Oliver resigned to in Forty Years?
(a) Communicating by words.
(b) Realizing she is mortal.
(c) Noting her inconsistencies.
(d) Talking with other people.

2. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as soft as?
(a) A wheat field.
(b) A kitten.
(c) A night sky.
(d) A pond.

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

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

5. What belongs to the animal in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) The earth and sky.
(b) The life it has claimed.
(c) The water.
(d) The heavens.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Mindful, what kind of things does Oliver say we should lose ourselves in?

3. How is Oliver trying to establish the intimacy she desires in Work Sometimes?

4. Where did Oliver attend college?

5. What does Oliver try to provide multiple avenues for in her poems?

(see the answer key)

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