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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a phrase from At Round Pond?
(a) Lush of meaning.
(b) Flight and frenzy.
(c) Need for nothing.
(d) Flow of living.

2. In Song of the Builders, what does Oliver think about?
(a) Nature.
(b) Earth.
(c) God.
(d) Poetry.

3. What does Oliver hope to be after her education in Mindful?
(a) Significant.
(b) Learned.
(c) Proud.
(d) Wise.

4. Which of these is a line from Prose Poem 1?
(a) How strong is the stillness.
(b) We just knew not.
(c) Never will we know for sure.
(d) How hopeful we were.

5. What are all the poems in the second section about?
(a) Water.
(b) Animals.
(c) Literature.
(d) Flowers.

6. What necessity has Oliver resigned to in Forty Years?
(a) Talking with other people.
(b) Noting her inconsistencies.
(c) Realizing she is mortal.
(d) Communicating by words.

7. How does Oliver describe H's in Forty Years?
(a) Inconsistent.
(b) Hidden.
(c) Harsh.
(d) Soldierly.

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

9. How does Oliver describe Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
(a) A psalm.
(b) An observation.
(c) A prayer.
(d) A meditation.

10. In The Soul At Last, which of these does Oliver say the composition of the soul is like?
(a) Spider webs.
(b) Tree bark.
(c) Twinkling stars.
(d) Rushing river.

11. 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) A sweet melody.
(c) A thrill song.
(d) An observation.

12. How many quatrains make up Forty Years?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

13. In Forty Years, what does Oliver say she struggles with?
(a) The ellusive symbolism.
(b) The need for knowledge.
(c) The ignorance of people.
(d) The limitations of language.

14. What does Oliver say we are building in Song of the Builders?
(a) The past.
(b) The future.
(c) The nation.
(d) The universe.

15. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver say gives prayers?
(a) Trees.
(b) Stars.
(c) Brooks.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these words does Oliver use to describe letters in Forty Years?

2. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being inside walls?

3. In Mindful, what does Oliver say she was born to do?

4. How is While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing formatted?

5. In May, what does Oliver say makes any dark place luminous?

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