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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) Can I ask?
(b) Do you see?
(c) Didn't you know?
(d) Do you love me?

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

3. 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 hate them.
(c) I loathe them.
(d) I need them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is mock orange?

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

(see the answer key)

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