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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 adjective does Oliver use to describe the world in Mindful?
(a) Needed.
(b) Soft.
(c) Harsh.
(d) Absent.

2. How does Oliver describe H's in Forty Years?
(a) Inconsistent.
(b) Harsh.
(c) Soldierly.
(d) Hidden.

3. Which of the following does Oliver say she learns from in Mindful?
(a) The shine of the ocean.
(b) All of these.
(c) The prayers.
(d) The light of the world.

4. In Song of the Builders, what does Oliver think about?
(a) Poetry.
(b) God.
(c) Nature.
(d) Earth.

5. At the end of Mindful, what does Oliver say prayers are made of?
(a) Grass.
(b) Water.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Hopes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Oliver describe Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?

2. What necessity has Oliver resigned to in Forty Years?

3. What is the predator in Prose Poem 2?

4. What is distinct about the poems from West Wind?

5. What are cantos?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Oliver admonishing the reader to do in How Would You Live Then?

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

6. What is the main message of Daisies?

7. 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?

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

9. How does Oliver describe letters in Forty Years?

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

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