2. 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 loathe them.
(c) I hate them.
(d) I love them.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?
(a) Her tears.
(b) Her thoughts.
(c) The man.
(d) The cry.

9. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?
(a) Sing or dance.
(b) Rest or be content.
(c) Make love.
(d) Read or write.

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

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

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

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

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

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