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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 light from the moon.
(b) The scent of mock orange.
(c) The scent of morning dew.
(d) The evening breeze.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?

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

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

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