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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 question is asked in the fourth stanza?
(a) Do you love me?
(b) Didn't you know?
(c) Do you see?
(d) Can I ask?

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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