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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) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

5. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?
(a) Lane Garcia.
(b) Lois Glickman.
(c) Louise Glück.
(d) Linda Gordon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

3. What is mock orange?

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

5. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?

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