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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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