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

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

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 were made fools of.
(d) They drift apart.

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

5. What is mock orange?
(a) A flower.
(b) A fruit.
(c) A color.
(d) A houseplant.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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