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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 love me?
(c) Didn't you know?
(d) Do you see?

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

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

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

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

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

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