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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 time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?
(a) Morning.
(b) Twilight.
(c) Afternoon.
(d) Night.

2. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?
(a) The man's body.
(b) The scent of flowers.
(c) The moonlight.
(d) Her bed.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?

2. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?

3. What is mock orange?

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

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

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