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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 say she is unable to do in the final stanza?
(a) Sing or dance.
(b) Rest or be content.
(c) Make love.
(d) Read or write.

2. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?
(a) Her thoughts.
(b) Her tears.
(c) The man.
(d) The cry.

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

4. What troubling thing is still "in the world" (24) in the final stanza?
(a) That moon.
(b) That person.
(c) Her thoughts.
(d) That odor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

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

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

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

5. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?

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