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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
(a) I hate them.
(b) I loathe them.
(c) I need them.
(d) I love them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?

2. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?

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

4. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?

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

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