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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 season is recalled in Prose Poem 1?
(a) Fall.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

2. What are the butterflies doing at the end of Seven White Butterflies?
(a) Nodding.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Flying.
(d) Sipping.

3. In May, what does Oliver say makes any dark place luminous?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Light.

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

5. What is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?
(a) Will.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Agency.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver wish to be at the end of Bleeding Heart?

2. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say gives prayers?

3. In The Soul At Last, what is Oliver writing about doing?

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

5. What are all the poems in the second section about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Many Miles about?

2. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she was born to do?

3. What does Oliver state she can't wait for at the end of Long Afternoon at the Edge of Sister Pond?

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

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

6. What creature is described in Spring, and why?

7. How does Oliver describe letters in Forty Years?

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

9. In May, what does Oliver say makes her feel most alive?

10. What is the main message of Daisies?

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