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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 using nature in her poems allow Oliver to do?
(a) Set forth an interpretation.
(b) Broaden her range.
(c) Open minds.
(d) Accept responsibility.

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

3. In Mindful, what kind of things does Oliver say we should lose ourselves in?
(a) Ourselves.
(b) None of these.
(c) Extraordinary things.
(d) Drab things.

4. How does Oliver describe the eyes of the animal in At Round Pond?
(a) Tawny.
(b) Golden.
(c) Foreboding.
(d) Trembling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say gives prayers?

2. What does Oliver say is irrefutable in The Soul At Last?

3. In Work Sometimes, what does Oliver say happiness is?

4. What does Oliver say she wants readers of Everything to look beyond?

5. In Song of the Builders, where does Oliver go to think?

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