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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

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

3. What troubling thing is still "in the world" (24) in the final stanza?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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