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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) I tell you.
(b) I mean to say.
(c) Don't you know.
(d) Do you see.

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

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

4. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Mind.
(c) Heart.
(d) Ears.

5. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?
(a) The scent of morning dew.
(b) The evening breeze.
(c) The scent of mock orange.
(d) The light from the moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

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

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

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

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

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