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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) Sonnett form.
(c) Prose form.
(d) Choral form.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What are the butterflies doing at the end of Seven White Butterflies?
(a) Sipping.
(b) Flying.
(c) Nodding.
(d) Sleeping.

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

9. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as hard as?
(a) Flint.
(b) Steel.
(c) Wood.
(d) Earth.

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

11. At the end of Mindful, what does Oliver say prayers are made of?
(a) Grass.
(b) Water.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Hopes.

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

13. What makes Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches different from the other poems in that section?
(a) Visual separators.
(b) It is in prose form.
(c) It includes an illustration.
(d) A lack of grammar.

14. What does Oliver describe as dazzling in Spring?
(a) Warmth.
(b) Light.
(c) Truth.
(d) Darkness.

15. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these authors does Oliver mention?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Donne.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Dickenson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mocks Oliver in Daisies?

2. What are cantos?

3. What does Oliver describe with the words red fire in Spring?

4. Which of these is a line from Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond?

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

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