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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. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being an adviser?
(a) A memory.
(b) A sunflower.
(c) A mockingbird.
(d) A dog.

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

3. What does Oliver say she calls herself everyday in Mindful?
(a) A student.
(b) A scholar.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A tutor.

4. How many quatrains make up Forty Years?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What storms out of the darkness in May?

2. What does Oliver say there are miles of in May?

3. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these authors does Oliver mention?

4. What does Oliver call the center of the daisies in Daisies?

5. What does Oliver describe as dazzling in Spring?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Oliver say the owl is symbolic of in At Round Pond?

2. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she sees everyday?

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

4. How does Oliver describe letters in Forty Years?

5. In While I am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what does Oliver compare the meadowlark's song to?

6. In Grass, what does Oliver say humans could learn from inanimate objects?

7. How is Prose Poem 2 worded, and what effect does this have on the reader?

8. What is compared in Many Miles?

9. In Grass, what does Oliver say is the most important time of all, and why?

10. What is the main message of Daisies?

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