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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 think people should pay more attention to in life?
(a) Loving.
(b) Passing.
(c) Living.
(d) Aging.

2. What does Oliver say she calls herself everyday in Mindful?
(a) A scholar.
(b) A tutor.
(c) A student.
(d) A teacher.

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

4. In Mindful, what does Oliver say almost kills her every day?
(a) Delight.
(b) Anger.
(c) Memories.
(d) Sadness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What tone does Oliver take on at the end of Work Sometimes?

2. How does the editor describe the language in the first section of poems?

3. What does using nature in her poems allow Oliver to do?

4. What is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?

5. What does Oliver call the prey in Prose Poem 2?

(see the answer key)

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