View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oliver call the center of the daisies in Daisies?
(a) Their heart.
(b) Their mind.
(c) Their center.
(d) Their being.

2. What is Oliver's most commonly used literary device in these poems?
(a) Simile.
(b) Anthropomorphism.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Metaphor.

3. How does the editor describe the thought put into these poems?
(a) Effervescent.
(b) Exuberant.
(c) Microscopic.
(d) Omniscient.

4. What kind of words does Oliver hope to find while writing in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
(a) Common, but amazing words.
(b) Doubled words.
(c) Ripe words.
(d) Meaningful words.

5. What does Oliver say she wants readers of Everything to look beyond?
(a) The page.
(b) The meaning.
(c) The words.
(d) The lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Oliver describe H's in Forty Years?

2. What does Oliver try to avoid awkwardness in as she is writing?

3. What had stacked up on the table in Work Sometimes?

4. What does Oliver describe with the words red fire in Spring?

5. How was the poet traveling when she saw an animal in The Measure?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 195 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample