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

2. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?
(a) Rest or be content.
(b) Make love.
(c) Sing or dance.
(d) Read or write.

3. What troubling thing is still "in the world" (24) in the final stanza?
(a) Her thoughts.
(b) That odor.
(c) That moon.
(d) That person.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?

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

3. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

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

5. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?

(see the answer key)

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