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

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

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

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

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

5. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?

(see the answer key)

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