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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
(a) I hate them.
(b) I love them.
(c) I loathe them.
(d) I need them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

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

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

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

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