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

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

3. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
(a) I loathe them.
(b) I hate them.
(c) I love them.
(d) I need them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What line in stanza one suggests the narrator is speaking to somebody?

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