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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 always seems brighter than the present in Prose Poem 1?
(a) Another's life.
(b) All of these.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

2. What does Oliver say all narrative is in Prose Poem 2?
(a) Lies.
(b) Truths.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Metaphor.

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

4. What are all the poems in the third section about?
(a) Plants.
(b) Birds.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Animals.

5. How many quatrains make up Forty Years?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the editor say there is an absence of in the first section of poems?

3. What does Oliver ask the reader in The Bleeding Heart after describing the plant?

4. What is the prey in Prose Poem 2?

5. How does Oliver state we must pray in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?

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