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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What line in stanza one suggests the narrator is speaking to somebody?

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

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

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

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

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