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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 is unique about the format of On Goldenrod at Field's Edge?
(a) The stanzas run diagonally.
(b) It is in prose form.
(c) It has on-running stanzas.
(d) It is formatted in a circle.

2. 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 the language of a flower.
(c) That we can learn all there is to learn.
(d) That our spirits will live forever.

3. Which of these is a phrase from At Round Pond?
(a) Need for nothing.
(b) Flow of living.
(c) Lush of meaning.
(d) Flight and frenzy.

4. In At Round Pond, what does Oliver say both life and death are?
(a) Insistent.
(b) Consistent.
(c) Oblivious.
(d) Unfeeling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these does Oliver compare the flying butterflies to?

2. Which of these is a line from Prose Poem 1?

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

4. Which of these words does Oliver use to describe letters in Forty Years?

5. Which of the following does Oliver say she learns from in Mindful?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the main message of Daisies?

2. What is Many Miles about?

3. What is compared in Many Miles?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Which authors does Oliver mention in Seven White Butterflies, and why?

10. In Mindful, where does Oliver say she gets all of her teaching?

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