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

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

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

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

5. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?

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