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

2. 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.

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

4. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?
(a) 9.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).

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

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