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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 speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?
(a) They were made fun of.
(b) They were made fools of.
(c) They were perfectly united.
(d) They drift apart.

2. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?
(a) Caresses.
(b) Hostilities.
(c) Friendships.
(d) Opposites.

3. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?
(a) Rest or be content.
(b) Read or write.
(c) Make love.
(d) Sing or dance.

4. 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.

5. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Fireflies.
(c) Sparklers.
(d) Streetlights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is mock orange?

2. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

3. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?

4. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

5. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?

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