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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. How is the pond in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones described?
(a) Black and leafy.
(b) Blue and billowy.
(c) Small and shallow.
(d) Deep and quiet.

2. How does Oliver say Everything first came to her?
(a) A quiet whispering.
(b) A moment of calm.
(c) A vision.
(d) A dream.

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

4. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these authors does Oliver mention?
(a) Donne.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Dickenson.
(d) Whitman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had stacked up on the table in Work Sometimes?

2. What animal was featured in The Measure?

3. At the end of Mindful, what does Oliver say prayers are made of?

4. What necessity has Oliver resigned to in Forty Years?

5. What are all the poems in the second section about?

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