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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 she is unable to do in the final stanza?

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

4. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?

5. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?

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