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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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) Heart.
(d) Ears.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?

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

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

4. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?

5. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?

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