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

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

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

4. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

3. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?

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

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

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