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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 mock orange?
(a) A houseplant.
(b) A color.
(c) A fruit.
(d) A flower.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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