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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) Opposites.
(b) Friendships.
(c) Hostilities.
(d) Caresses.

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

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

4. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?
(a) Lois Glickman.
(b) Lane Garcia.
(c) Linda Gordon.
(d) Louise Glück.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?

2. What is mock orange?

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

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

5. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

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