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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 word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
(a) Horrific.
(b) Histrionic.
(c) Humiliating.
(d) Humbling.

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

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

4. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is mock orange?

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

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

5. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?

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