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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections II through VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oliver say would make the mocker silent in Daisies?
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Pride.
(c) Questions.
(d) Answers.

2. What are most of Oliver's precious poems about?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Abstract thoughts.
(c) Plants.
(d) Relationships.

3. What does Oliver say all narrative is in Prose Poem 2?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Lies.
(c) Truths.
(d) Metaphor.

4. Which of these is a line from The Bleeding Heart?
(a) I think that was true.
(b) I wish that I were her.
(c) Where could that have gone?
(d) What has become of her.

5. In The Soul At Last, what is Oliver writing about doing?
(a) Attending Mass.
(b) Watching the seasons change.
(c) Burying a friend.
(d) Giving a eulogy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the bleeding heart plant survive in The Bleeding Heart?

2. How do the characters in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones feel about the events in the poem?

3. In Everything, what are we told to do in order to truly grasp the idea of poetry?

4. Which of the following is NOT a word Oliver says she wants to use often in Everything?

5. What necessity has Oliver resigned to in Forty Years?

(see the answer key)

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