View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 397 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample