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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 Seven White Butterflies, which of these authors does Oliver mention?
(a) Dickenson.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Donne.
2. What is distinct about the poems from West Wind?
(a) They are more philosophical.
(b) They have a sad tone.
(c) They are light and witty.
(d) They are more adventurous.
3. Which of these is a line from The Bleeding Heart?
(a) What has become of her.
(b) Where could that have gone?
(c) I think that was true.
(d) I wish that I were her.
4. What does Oliver compare herself to at the beginning of Mindful?
(a) A needle.
(b) A speck.
(c) A blade of grass.
(d) A figure.
5. Which of these is a line from Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond?
(a) Both of these, over and over.
(b) Again and again the song repeats.
(c) Once, twice, however many more.
(d) How many times will this cycle repeat?
Short Answer Questions
1. In While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what is the song of the bird called?
2. What are the butterflies doing at the end of Seven White Butterflies?
3. How many quatrains make up Forty Years?
4. At the beginning of Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say she is humbled by?
5. Which of these is a line from Seven White Butterflies?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Oliver say we are all helping to build in Song of the Builders?
2. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she was born to do?
3. What is Many Miles about?
4. In While I am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what does Oliver compare the meadowlark's song to?
5. What is the poet amazed by in Mindful?
6. How does Oliver describe the spirit in The Soul At Last?
7. What does Oliver say spring is like for humans?
8. What does Oliver talk about in Bleeding Heart?
9. What is the overall feeling in Prose Poem 1?
10. What are the two extremes Oliver describes about her life in Long Afternoon at the Edge of Sister Pond?
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