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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In May, what does Oliver say makes any dark place luminous?
(a) Light.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Knowledge.

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

4. What creature is featured in May?
(a) A spider.
(b) A scorpion.
(c) A snake.
(d) A lizard.

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

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

7. How does Oliver describe the sound of snowflakes?
(a) Gooooooooooooooo.
(b) Snoooooooooooooooo.
(c) Soooooooooooooooooo.
(d) Nooooooooooooooo.

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

9. How many lines is Prose Poem 1?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

10. Which of these words does Oliver use to describe letters in Forty Years?
(a) Graceful.
(b) Abrasive.
(c) Worthy.
(d) Petulant.

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

12. What does Oliver wish to be at the end of Bleeding Heart?
(a) The woman who planted the flowers.
(b) A bleeding heart.
(c) A woman who would not weep.
(d) The friend of a gardener.

13. In Forty Years, what does Oliver say she struggles with?
(a) The ignorance of people.
(b) The need for knowledge.
(c) The ellusive symbolism.
(d) The limitations of language.

14. What does Oliver say is indefinable in The Soul At Last?
(a) The body.
(b) The afterlife.
(c) The mind.
(d) The spirit.

15. In Prose Poem 1, what does Oliver say the season she talks about was full of?
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Hope.
(d) Stillness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver say she calls herself everyday in Mindful?

2. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say shouts out its name?

3. What animal is featured in At Round Pond?

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

5. In While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what is the song of the bird compared to?

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