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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a phrase from At Round Pond?
(a) Need for nothing.
(b) Lush of meaning.
(c) Flight and frenzy.
(d) Flow of living.

2. How does Oliver describe Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
(a) An observation.
(b) A meditation.
(c) A psalm.
(d) A prayer.

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

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

5. What does Oliver hope to be after her education in Mindful?
(a) Learned.
(b) Wise.
(c) Proud.
(d) Significant.

6. What are all the poems in the second section about?
(a) Literature.
(b) Animals.
(c) Water.
(d) Flowers.

7. In Song of the Builders, what does Oliver think about?
(a) Earth.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Nature.
(d) God.

8. What do the bees in May do?
(a) Dive.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Search.
(d) Swim.

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

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

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

12. What is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?
(a) Death.
(b) Will.
(c) Agency.
(d) Life.

13. In While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what is the song of the bird compared to?
(a) A hymn of thanks.
(b) A psalm of love.
(c) A trumpet of declaration.
(d) A conversation.

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

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 pond.
(d) The stillness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What season does Song of the Builders take place in?

4. Which of these words does Oliver use to describe letters in Forty Years?

5. In Seven White Butterflies, what does Oliver compare butterfly wings to?

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