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

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

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

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

5. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?

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

5. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).

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