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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How is How Would You Live Then formatted?
(a) Choral form.
(b) Sonnett form.
(c) Limerick form.
(d) Prose form.
2. In Mindful, what kind of things does Oliver say we should lose ourselves in?
(a) Extraordinary things.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) None of these.
(d) Drab things.
3. What is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?
(a) Life.
(b) Will.
(c) Death.
(d) Agency.
4. What does Oliver say all narrative is in Prose Poem 2?
(a) Lies.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Truths.
5. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Oliver ask the reader in The Bleeding Heart after describing the plant?
2. What does Oliver say she calls herself everyday in Mindful?
3. What is the tone of While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing?
4. What do the bees in May do?
5. What literary device is used heavily in Prose Poem 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Oliver say the owl is symbolic of in At Round Pond?
2. How is Prose Poem 2 worded, and what effect does this have on the reader?
3. In Grass, what does Oliver say is the most important time of all, and why?
4. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she sees everyday?
5. In While I am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what does Oliver say she has envied her whole life?
6. What are the two extremes Oliver describes about her life in Long Afternoon at the Edge of Sister Pond?
7. What does Oliver say we are all helping to build in Song of the Builders?
8. In May, what does Oliver say makes her feel most alive?
9. In While I am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what does Oliver compare the meadowlark's song to?
10. In Prose Poem 2, what does Oliver say about narrative, and how does this change the feeling of the poem?
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