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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.

"At Blackwater Pond" is the earliest poem in Devotions to mention Blackwater, a place Oliver returned to again and again in her work. How does she describe this poetic first meeting? (from Twelve Moons (1979), The River Styx, Ohio (1972), No Voyage and Other Poems, (1963 and 1965))

2.

"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))

3.

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))

4.

In "Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York 1957," Oliver describes an encounter with a deer in the field. Oliver often compares human moments and traits to the natural world, but less frequently compares wild creatures to other parts of nature. What does it mean that she does so here? (from New and Selected Poems: Volume One (1992), House of Light (1990), Dream Work (1986))

5.

"Ghosts" tells the story of an animal hunted to near-extinction during the colonization of the American west. What animal was it? (from American Primitive (1983), Three Rivers Poetry Journal (1980), Three Poems for James Wright (1982))

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