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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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. 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) Mind.
(d) Thoughts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

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

4. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?

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

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