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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 light from the moon.
(c) The scent of mock orange.
(d) The scent of morning dew.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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 hate them.
(c) I loathe them.
(d) I need them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is mock orange?

5. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).

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