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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are cantos?
(a) Songs.
(b) Descriptions.
(c) Parts of a larger work.
(d) Prose works.

2. In At Round Pond, what does Oliver say both life and death are?
(a) Unfeeling.
(b) Oblivious.
(c) Consistent.
(d) Insistent.

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 does Oliver say there are miles of in May?
(a) Worlds.
(b) Flowing.
(c) Leafing.
(d) Travels.

6. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say shouts out its name?
(a) Stars.
(b) Bees.
(c) Mockingbirds.
(d) Brooks.

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

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

9. 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 pond.
(c) A night sky.
(d) A kitten.

10. What creature is featured in May?
(a) A lizard.
(b) A snake.
(c) A spider.
(d) A scorpion.

11. Which of these words does Oliver use to describe letters in Forty Years?
(a) Graceful.
(b) Petulant.
(c) Worthy.
(d) Abrasive.

12. At the beginning of Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say she is humbled by?
(a) Religion.
(b) Nature.
(c) Life.
(d) Love.

13. What storms out of the darkness in May?
(a) Thrills.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Blossoms.
(d) Frights.

14. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say the tree angel is watching over?
(a) An egg.
(b) The stillness.
(c) A bird.
(d) The pond.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of creature did Oliver write about in Song of the Builders?

3. Which of these is a line from The Bleeding Heart?

4. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as hard as?

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

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