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

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

3. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?
(a) They drift apart.
(b) They were made fun of.
(c) They were perfectly united.
(d) They were made fools of.

4. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?
(a) It seals the speakers mouth.
(b) It speaks out of turn.
(c) It mocks the speaker.
(d) It lashes out at the speaker.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?

3. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

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

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

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