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

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

3. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Morning.
(c) Twilight.
(d) Night.

4. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?
(a) Her thoughts.
(b) The cry.
(c) Her tears.
(d) The man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is mock orange?

2. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?

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

4. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?

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

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