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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 Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as soft as?
(a) A kitten.
(b) A wheat field.
(c) A pond.
(d) A night sky.

2. How does Oliver describe the sound of snowflakes?
(a) Soooooooooooooooooo.
(b) Snoooooooooooooooo.
(c) Nooooooooooooooo.
(d) Gooooooooooooooo.

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

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

5. How is While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing formatted?
(a) In triplets.
(b) In prose form.
(c) In couplets.
(d) In sonnets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unique about the format of On Goldenrod at Field's Edge?

2. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say the tree angel is watching over?

3. What does Oliver call the prey in Prose Poem 2?

4. In Forty Years, what does Oliver say she struggles with?

5. What animal is featured in At Round Pond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the overall feeling in Prose Poem 1?

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

3. 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?

4. What is the poet amazed by in Mindful?

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

6. What is compared in Many Miles?

7. What does Oliver say we are all helping to build in Song of the Builders?

8. What does Oliver talk about in Bleeding Heart?

9. How does Oliver describe letters in Forty Years?

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

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