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

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?

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

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