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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?

2. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).

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

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

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

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