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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 question is asked in the fourth stanza?
(a) Do you love me?
(b) Do you see?
(c) Can I ask?
(d) Didn't you know?

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

3. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?
(a) It speaks out of turn.
(b) It mocks the speaker.
(c) It lashes out at the speaker.
(d) It seals the speakers mouth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?

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

4. What is mock orange?

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

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