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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of creature did Oliver write about in Song of the Builders?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A cricket.
(c) A firefly.
(d) An ant.

2. What are cantos?
(a) Descriptions.
(b) Parts of a larger work.
(c) Songs.
(d) Prose works.

3. How is The Bleeding Heart formatted?
(a) Choral form.
(b) Prose form.
(c) Limerick form.
(d) Sonnett form.

4. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say gives prayers?
(a) Stars.
(b) Children.
(c) Trees.
(d) Brooks.

5. What literary device is used heavily in Prose Poem 2?
(a) Simile.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Allusion.

6. What does Oliver say would make the mocker silent in Daisies?
(a) Questions.
(b) Avoidance.
(c) Answers.
(d) Pride.

7. Which of these is a line from Seven White Butterflies?
(a) Where would I go if I were one with them?
(b) Who would have thought it could be so easy.
(c) What am I to learn from this?
(d) Why am I not with them now?

8. What season is recalled in Prose Poem 1?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

9. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these does Oliver compare the flying butterflies to?
(a) Singers.
(b) Dancers.
(c) Artists.
(d) Weavers.

10. What does Oliver compare herself to at the beginning of Mindful?
(a) A speck.
(b) A needle.
(c) A blade of grass.
(d) A figure.

11. Which of these is a line from Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond?
(a) How many times will this cycle repeat?
(b) Both of these, over and over.
(c) Again and again the song repeats.
(d) Once, twice, however many more.

12. What storms out of the darkness in May?
(a) Blossoms.
(b) Thrills.
(c) Frights.
(d) Leaves.

13. What mocks Oliver in Daisies?
(a) A mockingbird.
(b) An owl.
(c) A crane.
(d) A hornet.

14. How is How Would You Live Then formatted?
(a) Sonnett form.
(b) Limerick form.
(c) Prose form.
(d) Choral form.

15. In Seven White Butterflies, what does Oliver compare butterfly wings to?
(a) Pages.
(b) Songs.
(c) Breezes.
(d) Petals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as hard as?

3. What does Oliver say we are building in Song of the Builders?

4. What is distinct about the poems from West Wind?

5. How does Oliver describe Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?

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