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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is mock orange?
(a) A houseplant.
(b) A fruit.
(c) A flower.
(d) A color.
2. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
(a) I loathe them.
(b) I need them.
(c) I love them.
(d) I hate them.
3. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?
(a) The man.
(b) Her tears.
(c) Her thoughts.
(d) The cry.
4. 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.
5. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?
(a) The light from the moon.
(b) The scent of mock orange.
(c) The scent of morning dew.
(d) The evening breeze.
6. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?
(a) The night.
(b) Sex.
(c) The moon.
(d) Men.
7. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?
(a) Louise Glück.
(b) Lane Garcia.
(c) Linda Gordon.
(d) Lois Glickman.
8. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?
(a) Night.
(b) Afternoon.
(c) Morning.
(d) Twilight.
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 troubling thing is still "in the world" (24) in the final stanza?
(a) Her thoughts.
(b) That moon.
(c) That odor.
(d) That person.
11. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).
(a) Heart.
(b) Mind.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Ears.
12. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?
(a) The man's body.
(b) The scent of flowers.
(c) Her bed.
(d) The moonlight.
13. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
(a) Histrionic.
(b) Horrific.
(c) Humbling.
(d) Humiliating.
14. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?
(a) Can I ask?
(b) Do you see?
(c) Do you love me?
(d) Didn't you know?
15. What line in stanza one suggests the narrator is speaking to somebody?
(a) Do you see.
(b) I mean to say.
(c) I tell you.
(d) Don't you know.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?
2. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?
3. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?
4. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?
5. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?
This section contains 397 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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