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

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

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

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

5. Which of these is a line from Prose Poem 1?
(a) Never will we know for sure.
(b) How strong is the stillness.
(c) How hopeful we were.
(d) We just knew not.

Short Answer Questions

1. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being an adviser?

2. What does Oliver say we are building in Song of the Builders?

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

4. How many quatrains make up Forty Years?

5. What does Oliver call the prey in Prose Poem 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. In May, what does Oliver say she wants to see?

2. In Prose Poem 2, what does Oliver say about narrative, and how does this change the feeling of the poem?

3. What is the main message of Song of the Builders?

4. What are the two extremes Oliver describes about her life in Long Afternoon at the Edge of Sister Pond?

5. What does Oliver talk about in Bleeding Heart?

6. What is the main message of Daisies?

7. How does Oliver describe the spirit in The Soul At Last?

8. In Grass, what does Oliver say nature does?

9. 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?

10. How does Oliver describe letters in Forty Years?

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