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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Quiz

Mary Oliver
This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Devotions.

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Quiz

Mary Oliver
This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Devotions.

Take our free Devotions quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

"White Heron Rises Over Blackwater" ends with the words, "He is exactly / the poem / I wanted to write," ( 30-33). What do these words mean in the context of the poem? (from New and Selected Poems Volume Two (2005), Blue Iris (2004), Why I Wake Early (2004))

2.

In "Backyard," Oliver describes a garden which she has failed to tend before the weather changed at the end of the season. What does the use of the three words "direction management / supervision" just before Oliver reaches the line about the birds imply? (from Long Life (2004), Owls and Other Fantasies (2003), What Do We Know (2002))

3.

What does the river represent in the poem "Night And the River?" (from The Truro Bear and Other Adventures (2008), Red Bird (2008), Thirst (2006))

4.

In "Seven White Butterflies," Oliver evokes the poets Blake and Whitman. Why? (from The Leaf and the Cloud (2000), West Wind (1997), White Pine (1994))

5.

"Goldfinches," like a number of other poems published around this time, is typeset with all of its varying, free-verse lines centered in the middle of the page. In the case of "Goldfinches," what does this visual element add to the poem? (from New and Selected Poems: Volume One (1992), House of Light (1990), Dream Work (1986))

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