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

2. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?
(a) The scent of morning dew.
(b) The light from the moon.
(c) The scent of mock orange.
(d) The evening breeze.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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