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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) Sparklers.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Streetlights.
(d) Fireflies.

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

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

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

5. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?
(a) They were made fools of.
(b) They were perfectly united.
(c) They drift apart.
(d) They were made fun of.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

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

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