View a FREE sample

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 has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?
(a) They drift apart.
(b) They were made fools of.
(c) They were perfectly united.
(d) They were made fun of.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 196 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample