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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Oliver wish to be at the end of Bleeding Heart?
(a) A bleeding heart.
(b) The friend of a gardener.
(c) A woman who would not weep.
(d) The woman who planted the flowers.

4. In Seven White Butterflies, which of these does Oliver compare the flying butterflies to?
(a) Artists.
(b) Weavers.
(c) Singers.
(d) Dancers.

5. How does Oliver describe the eyes of the animal in At Round Pond?
(a) Trembling.
(b) Golden.
(c) Foreboding.
(d) Tawny.

6. In How Would You Live Then, what does Oliver talk about being inside walls?
(a) Honey.
(b) Tears.
(c) Oats.
(d) Secrets.

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

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

9. What creature is featured in May?
(a) A spider.
(b) A lizard.
(c) A snake.
(d) A scorpion.

10. What makes Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches different from the other poems in that section?
(a) A lack of grammar.
(b) It includes an illustration.
(c) It is in prose form.
(d) Visual separators.

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

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

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

14. What does Oliver describe as dazzling in Spring?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Truth.
(c) Light.
(d) Warmth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver say she calls herself everyday in Mindful?

2. What is the predator in Prose Poem 2?

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

4. Which of these is a phrase from At Round Pond?

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

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