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

2. What is mock orange?
(a) A houseplant.
(b) A flower.
(c) A fruit.
(d) A color.

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

4. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?
(a) They were made fun of.
(b) They were perfectly united.
(c) They drift apart.
(d) They were made fools of.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?

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

5. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?

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