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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?

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

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

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