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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Oliver say Everything first came to her?
(a) A vision.
(b) A quiet whispering.
(c) A moment of calm.
(d) A dream.
2. What did Oliver do at the end of Work Sometimes?
(a) Took a nap.
(b) Went back to work.
(c) Ran for her life.
(d) Closed her blinds.
3. What is the length of most of Oliver's poems in this collection?
(a) A few short stanzas.
(b) Medium in length.
(c) Many pages.
(d) Just a few lines.
4. What is the main subject of Everything?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Love.
(c) Nature.
(d) Transcendance.
5. How do the characters in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones feel about the events in the poem?
(a) They are frightening.
(b) They are commonplace.
(c) They are unexpected.
(d) They are miraculaous.
6. What was a joy to the animal featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Wind.
(c) Speed.
(d) Victory.
7. What does Oliver try to write most of her poems about?
(a) Political needs.
(b) Literature.
(c) Psychological problems.
(d) Human concerns.
8. How does the editor describe the language in the first section of poems?
(a) Descriptive.
(b) Adorned.
(c) Imaginative.
(d) Basic.
9. What are most of the poems in this collection about?
(a) Education.
(b) Literature.
(c) People.
(d) Plants and animals.
10. What style is Work Sometimes written in?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) First Person.
(c) Second Person.
(d) Conversational.
11. What is found by Oliver, belonging to a heron, in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
(a) An egg.
(b) A print.
(c) A nest.
(d) A feather.
12. What does Oliver call the things in life that are not human?
(a) Co-inhabitants.
(b) Partners.
(c) Non-humans.
(d) Others.
13. In Everything, what does Oliver compare elaboration to?
(a) Puffed sleeves.
(b) Striped canes.
(c) Frills and lace.
(d) Vests with ties.
14. In Everything, what are we told to look to for examination?
(a) Our God.
(b) Our surroundings.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) Our goals.
15. What is Oliver trying to describe with the lilt in the words in Everything?
(a) Creation.
(b) Human Nature.
(c) Choices.
(d) Gravity.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Oliver describe her poetry in Everything?
2. What is the turtle in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones, doing?
3. How many poems are in the first section?
4. Why did Oliver choose the tone she did at the beginning of Work Sometimes?
5. What should one be transcending according to Everything?
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