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 was a joy to the animal featured in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) Victory.
(b) Speed.
(c) Wind.
(d) Knowledge.

2. What does Oliver say is irrefutable in The Soul At Last?
(a) The hope for the future.
(b) The existence of the soul.
(c) The love of humans.
(d) The trail of the past.

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

4. Why did Oliver choose the tone she did at the beginning of Work Sometimes?
(a) She wanted to draw the reader in.
(b) She wanted it to seem as though the conversation was already in place.
(c) She wanted to set it apart from her other poems.
(d) She wanted the poem to flow easily.

5. How is The Bleeding Heart formatted?
(a) Sonnett form.
(b) Choral form.
(c) Prose form.
(d) Limerick form.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was singing to Oliver in Work Sometimes?

2. What storms out of the darkness in May?

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

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

5. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these does Oliver compare the flying butterflies to?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 237 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample