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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. Which of these is a line from Prose Poem 1?
(a) How hopeful we were.
(b) Never will we know for sure.
(c) We just knew not.
(d) How strong is the stillness.

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

3. What does Oliver say we are building in Song of the Builders?
(a) The past.
(b) The universe.
(c) The nation.
(d) The future.

4. In Song of the Builders, where does Oliver go to think?
(a) A small pond.
(b) Her bedroom.
(c) A hillside.
(d) A church.

5. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say gives prayers?
(a) Brooks.
(b) Children.
(c) Trees.
(d) Stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are all the poems in the third section about?

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

3. What did Oliver say the woman who planted the bleeding heart plant probably got joy from in The Bleeding Heart?

4. What does Oliver call the center of the daisies in Daisies?

5. What kind of creature did Oliver write about in Song of the Builders?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. What are some of the questions asked in How Would You Live Then?

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

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

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

10. What is the main message of Song of the Builders?

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