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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) Didn't you know?
(b) Do you see?
(c) Can I ask?
(d) Do you love me?

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?

(see the answer key)

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