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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Why am I not with them now?
(d) What am I to learn from this?

3. In The Soul At Last, what is Oliver writing about doing?
(a) Attending Mass.
(b) Giving a eulogy.
(c) Watching the seasons change.
(d) Burying a friend.

4. 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 trumpet of declaration.
(c) A psalm of love.
(d) A conversation.

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

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

7. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she was born to do?
(a) All of these.
(b) To look.
(c) To listen.
(d) To lose herself.

8. What animal is featured in At Round Pond?
(a) A cougar.
(b) A beaver.
(c) An owl.
(d) A skunk.

9. 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 wheat field.
(c) A kitten.
(d) A pond.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Oliver say she will remember most at the end of Spring?

3. How many lines is Prose Poem 1?

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

5. What does Oliver say would make the mocker silent in Daisies?

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