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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 9.

2. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?
(a) Sex.
(b) The moon.
(c) The night.
(d) Men.

3. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
(a) Histrionic.
(b) Humiliating.
(c) Humbling.
(d) Horrific.

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

5. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?
(a) The scent of mock orange.
(b) The scent of morning dew.
(c) The light from the moon.
(d) The evening breeze.

Short Answer Questions

1. What line in stanza one suggests the narrator is speaking to somebody?

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

3. What troubling thing is still "in the world" (24) in the final stanza?

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

5. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?

(see the answer key)

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