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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 an adviser?
(a) A memory.
(b) A dog.
(c) A mockingbird.
(d) A sunflower.

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

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

4. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she sees everyday?
(a) Something that reminds her.
(b) Something that delights her.
(c) Something that angers her.
(d) Something that saddens her.

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

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

7. In Mindful, what kind of things does Oliver say we should lose ourselves in?
(a) Ourselves.
(b) Extraordinary things.
(c) None of these.
(d) Drab things.

8. What is unique about the format of On Goldenrod at Field's Edge?
(a) It is formatted in a circle.
(b) The stanzas run diagonally.
(c) It has on-running stanzas.
(d) It is in prose form.

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

10. In The Soul At Last, which of these does Oliver say the composition of the soul is like?
(a) Tree bark.
(b) Spider webs.
(c) Twinkling stars.
(d) Rushing river.

11. In While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what is the song of the bird called?
(a) A speech in progress.
(b) A sweet melody.
(c) An observation.
(d) A thrill song.

12. What does Oliver say we are building in Song of the Builders?
(a) The universe.
(b) The past.
(c) The nation.
(d) The future.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is a line from Seven White Butterflies?

2. Which of the following does Oliver say she learns from in Mindful?

3. How is How Would You Live Then formatted?

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

5. What is the prey in Prose Poem 2?

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