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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing formatted?
(a) In prose form.
(b) In sonnets.
(c) In triplets.
(d) In couplets.

2. What storms out of the darkness in May?
(a) Blossoms.
(b) Thrills.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Frights.

3. Which of these words does Oliver use to describe letters in Forty Years?
(a) Petulant.
(b) Worthy.
(c) Abrasive.
(d) Graceful.

4. In While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing, what is the song of the bird called?
(a) A speech in progress.
(b) An observation.
(c) A sweet melody.
(d) A thrill song.

5. How does Oliver describe the sound of snowflakes?
(a) Nooooooooooooooo.
(b) Gooooooooooooooo.
(c) Snoooooooooooooooo.
(d) Soooooooooooooooooo.

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

7. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she sees everyday?
(a) Something that delights her.
(b) Something that saddens her.
(c) Something that reminds her.
(d) Something that angers her.

8. What does Oliver say there are miles of in May?
(a) Leafing.
(b) Worlds.
(c) Flowing.
(d) Travels.

9. At the end of Mindful, what does Oliver say prayers are made of?
(a) Hopes.
(b) Grass.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Water.

10. In Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, what does Oliver say life has been as soft as?
(a) A wheat field.
(b) A kitten.
(c) A night sky.
(d) A pond.

11. In Mindful, what does Oliver say almost kills her every day?
(a) Memories.
(b) Delight.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Anger.

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

13. What does Oliver say she will remember most at the end of Spring?
(a) The deer's startled face.
(b) The bear's love.
(c) The light on the water.
(d) The mother's touch.

14. Which of these is a line from Seven White Butterflies?
(a) What am I to learn from this?
(b) Who would have thought it could be so easy.
(c) Why am I not with them now?
(d) Where would I go if I were one with them?

15. Which of these is a line from Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond?
(a) Both of these, over and over.
(b) Once, twice, however many more.
(c) Again and again the song repeats.
(d) How many times will this cycle repeat?

Short Answer Questions

1. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say shouts out its name?

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

3. In Prose Poem 1, what does Oliver say the season she talks about was full of?

4. Which of the following does Oliver say she learns from in Mindful?

5. What are the butterflies doing at the end of Seven White Butterflies?

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