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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. What does Oliver say is possible at the beginning of Daisies?
(a) That we can be as wise as we wish.
(b) That we can learn all there is to learn.
(c) That we can learn the language of a flower.
(d) That our spirits will live forever.

7. In The Soul At Last, which of these does Oliver compare the soul to?
(a) Tree bark.
(b) Children's prayers.
(c) Aspen leaves.
(d) Birds' nests.

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

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

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

11. Which of these is a line from Spring?
(a) All winter I long for this.
(b) All day I think of her.
(c) All year I wait for this.
(d) All night I dream of him.

12. What adjective does Oliver use to describe the world in Mindful?
(a) Absent.
(b) Needed.
(c) Harsh.
(d) Soft.

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

14. 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 psalm of love.
(b) A conversation.
(c) A trumpet of declaration.
(d) A hymn of thanks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many quatrains make up Forty Years?

2. What does Oliver describe as dazzling in Spring?

3. What does Oliver say is irrefutable in The Soul At Last?

4. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these does Oliver compare the flying butterflies to?

5. What makes Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches different from the other poems in that section?

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