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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?

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

3. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?

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

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

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