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

2. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?
(a) Lane Garcia.
(b) Louise Glück.
(c) Lois Glickman.
(d) Linda Gordon.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

2. What is mock orange?

3. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?

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

5. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?

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