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

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

3. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?
(a) The man's body.
(b) The scent of flowers.
(c) Her bed.
(d) The moonlight.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?

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

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

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

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

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