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

2. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Sparklers.
(d) Streetlights.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is mock orange?

3. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?

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

5. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?

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