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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 does Oliver describe as dazzling in Spring?

2. What does Oliver say is possible at the beginning of Daisies?

3. What mocks Oliver in Daisies?

4. In The Soul At Last, what is Oliver writing about doing?

5. What are the butterflies doing at the end of Seven White Butterflies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Oliver admonishing the reader to do in How Would You Live Then?

2. What does Oliver state she can't wait for at the end of Long Afternoon at the Edge of Sister Pond?

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

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

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

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

7. In May, what does Oliver say she wants to see?

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. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is prose poetry different from other forms, and what other effects did prose form have on the poems written in that style?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the main places where personification is used in these poems, and what messages are sent in these moments?

Essay Topic 3

Religion was a theme that was touched on a number of times in this book. Where did this theme appear, and what are some of the different ways this theme was introduced?

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