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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 1 - 24 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
(a) I loathe them.
(b) I hate them.
(c) I love them.
(d) I need them.

2. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

3. What line in stanza one suggests the narrator is speaking to somebody?
(a) I tell you.
(b) Do you see.
(c) I mean to say.
(d) Don't you know.

4. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?
(a) Her bed.
(b) The moonlight.
(c) The man's body.
(d) The scent of flowers.

5. What troubling thing is still "in the world" (24) in the final stanza?
(a) Her thoughts.
(b) That person.
(c) That odor.
(d) That moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?

2. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?

3. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

4. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).

5. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?

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