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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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 love them.
(d) I hate them.

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

12. 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.

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

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

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