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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Night.
(c) Morning.
(d) Twilight.
2. 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?
3. What is mock orange?
(a) A flower.
(b) A color.
(c) A fruit.
(d) A houseplant.
4. What line in stanza one suggests the narrator is speaking to somebody?
(a) Do you see.
(b) Don't you know.
(c) I tell you.
(d) I mean to say.
5. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?
(a) It mocks the speaker.
(b) It seals the speakers mouth.
(c) It speaks out of turn.
(d) It lashes out at the speaker.
6. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?
(a) They were made fools of.
(b) They were perfectly united.
(c) They were made fun of.
(d) They drift apart.
7. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?
(a) Her tears.
(b) The man.
(c) Her thoughts.
(d) The cry.
8. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?
(a) Louise Glück.
(b) Lois Glickman.
(c) Linda Gordon.
(d) Lane Garcia.
9. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?
(a) 9.
(b) 2.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.
10. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?
(a) Friendships.
(b) Caresses.
(c) Hostilities.
(d) Opposites.
11. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
(a) I hate them.
(b) I love them.
(c) I need them.
(d) I loathe them.
12. What troubling thing is still "in the world" (24) in the final stanza?
(a) That person.
(b) Her thoughts.
(c) That moon.
(d) That odor.
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) Ears.
(c) Heart.
(d) Thoughts.
14. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.
15. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?
(a) Sex.
(b) The moon.
(c) Men.
(d) The night.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?
2. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
3. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?
4. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?
5. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?
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