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

2. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?
(a) Do you see?
(b) Do you love me?
(c) Can I ask?
(d) Didn't you know?

3. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
(a) Histrionic.
(b) Humbling.
(c) Horrific.
(d) Humiliating.

4. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?
(a) Rest or be content.
(b) Sing or dance.
(c) Read or write.
(d) Make love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).

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

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 drifts through the window in stanza 4?

(see the answer key)

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