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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 mock orange?
(a) A color.
(b) A fruit.
(c) A flower.
(d) A houseplant.

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

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

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

5. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?
(a) Lois Glickman.
(b) Lane Garcia.
(c) Louise Glück.
(d) Linda Gordon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?

2. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).

3. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

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

5. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?

(see the answer key)

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