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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?
(a) Morning.
(b) Afternoon.
(c) Night.
(d) Twilight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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