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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 long did the bleeding heart plant survive in The Bleeding Heart?
(a) 60 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 30 years.

2. What is the animal symbolic of in At Round Pond?
(a) Agency.
(b) Death.
(c) Will.
(d) Life.

3. What does Oliver say is NOT praying in The Real Prayers are Not the Words, but the Attention that comes First?
(a) Seeing and noticing.
(b) Seeing what has not been seen.
(c) Witnessing with the eyes.
(d) Observing.

4. What is found by Oliver, belonging to a heron, in Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones?
(a) An egg.
(b) A print.
(c) A feather.
(d) A nest.

5. How does Oliver come to a better understanding of human nature?
(a) She observes the ocean tides.
(b) She meditates.
(c) She looks to non-human examples.
(d) She talks to people of different ages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver say is indefinable in The Soul At Last?

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

3. What are all the poems in the second section about?

4. Why did Oliver choose the tone she did at the beginning of Work Sometimes?

5. What are we told to examine in Everything?

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