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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oliver ask the reader in The Bleeding Heart after describing the plant?
(a) What does this make you think of?
(b) Doesn't that deserve some thought?
(c) How could you not have noticed it?
(d) Haven't you ever considered that?

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

3. What season does Song of the Builders take place in?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

4. In Song of the Builders, where does Oliver go to think?
(a) A church.
(b) A small pond.
(c) A hillside.
(d) Her bedroom.

5. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these does Oliver compare the flying butterflies to?
(a) Artists.
(b) Weavers.
(c) Singers.
(d) Dancers.

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

7. In Mindful, what does Oliver say almost kills her every day?
(a) Delight.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Memories.

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

9. What is the prey in Prose Poem 2?
(a) A hummingbird.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A snake.
(d) A starling.

10. What does Oliver describe with the words red fire in Spring?
(a) A tongue.
(b) The warmth of the sun.
(c) The pain of birth.
(d) Eyes.

11. What does Oliver do to the daisies at the end of Daisies?
(a) Plants some seeds.
(b) Picks some.
(c) Touches them.
(d) Prunes them.

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

13. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as soft as?
(a) A wheat field.
(b) A night sky.
(c) A kitten.
(d) A pond.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In At Round Pond, what does Oliver say both life and death are?

2. What does Oliver say all narrative is in Prose Poem 2?

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

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

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

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