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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) Hostilities.
(b) Friendships.
(c) Opposites.
(d) Caresses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?

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

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

4. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

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

(see the answer keys)

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