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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being inside walls?
(a) Oats.
(b) Tears.
(c) Honey.
(d) Secrets.

2. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say shouts out its name?
(a) Brooks.
(b) Stars.
(c) Mockingbirds.
(d) Bees.

3. What season does Song of the Builders take place in?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Fall.

4. 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) Again and again the song repeats.
(c) Both of these, over and over.
(d) Once, twice, however many more.

5. What does Oliver say there are miles of in May?
(a) Travels.
(b) Leafing.
(c) Flowing.
(d) Worlds.

6. How long did the bleeding heart plant survive in The Bleeding Heart?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 30 years.

7. What is the predator in Prose Poem 2?
(a) A hawk.
(b) A vulture.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A falcon.

8. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as soft as?
(a) A night sky.
(b) A pond.
(c) A kitten.
(d) A wheat field.

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

10. What does Oliver call the center of the daisies in Daisies?
(a) Their center.
(b) Their mind.
(c) Their heart.
(d) Their being.

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

12. What does Oliver call the prey in Prose Poem 2?
(a) A piece of nothing.
(b) A flashing jewel.
(c) A piece of heart.
(d) A frightened tidbit.

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

14. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being an adviser?
(a) A memory.
(b) A dog.
(c) A sunflower.
(d) A mockingbird.

15. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say the tree angel is watching over?
(a) A bird.
(b) An egg.
(c) The stillness.
(d) The pond.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver say always seems brighter than the present in Prose Poem 1?

2. What does Oliver say is possible at the beginning of Daisies?

3. In Forty Years, what does Oliver say she struggles with?

4. What is the first animal Oliver talks about in Spring?

5. At the beginning of Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say she is humbled by?

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