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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Oliver say she was outside of while writing Work Sometimes?
2. What does Oliver want to celebrate in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
3. What style is Work Sometimes written in?
4. In The Measure, what does the author say we must do to fully experience life?
5. Which of the following is a line from Work Sometimes?
Short Essay Questions
1. In The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First, what is the bird doing at the beginning of the poem?
2. In Everything, where are some of the places Oliver states she wants to go when she writes?
3. In Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones, what is personified in the last lines?
4. What did Oliver compare the feet of the hawk to in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First?
5. What did the hawk do at the end of The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First?
6. What did Mary Oliver compare the hawk in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First to when it was in the grass?
7. In Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones, what does Oliver ask about a catbird?
8. In Everything, what does Oliver say she wants her poems to be able to do?
9. What does Oliver state the reader has probably felt before in Work Sometimes?
10. In Work Sometimes, what does Oliver say happiness truly is?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are some of the relationships spoken about in these poems, and what do they reveal about Mary Oliver's personality?
Essay Topic 2
Nature and its power is a huge theme in this book. What are some of the main examples of this theme and how does this affect the tone of the poems?
Essay Topic 3
How were the themes of life and death shown together? Why do you think Oliver chose to present these themes in tangent with each other?
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