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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?
(a) The evening breeze.
(b) The scent of mock orange.
(c) The scent of morning dew.
(d) The light from the moon.

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 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.

4. 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?

5. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).
(a) Mind.
(b) Ears.
(c) Heart.
(d) Thoughts.

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

7. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?
(a) The night.
(b) The moon.
(c) Sex.
(d) Men.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?
(a) It mocks the speaker.
(b) It speaks out of turn.
(c) It seals the speakers mouth.
(d) It lashes out at the speaker.

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

15. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?
(a) Hostilities.
(b) Opposites.
(c) Friendships.
(d) Caresses.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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