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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. How is the animal featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First described in the first lines?
(a) Small.
(b) Robust.
(c) Soaring.
(d) Gentle.

2. What does Oliver compare picking the right words to in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
(a) Picking fruit.
(b) Sorting money.
(c) Growing a garden.
(d) Threading a needle.

3. In Seven White Butterflies, what does Oliver compare butterfly wings to?
(a) Pages.
(b) Breezes.
(c) Petals.
(d) Songs.

4. What season is recalled in Prose Poem 1?
(a) Spring.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Fall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver think people should pay more attention to in life?

2. What is the predator in Prose Poem 2?

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

4. In While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what is the song of the bird called?

5. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being an adviser?

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