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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) Can I ask?
(b) Do you see?
(c) Do you love me?
(d) Didn't you know?

2. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?
(a) Her bed.
(b) The moonlight.
(c) The man's body.
(d) The scent of flowers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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 is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?

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