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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is mock orange?

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

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

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

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