Mock Orange Test | Final Test - Easy

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Mock Orange Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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 fun of.
(d) They were made fools of.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?
(a) Friendships.
(b) Opposites.
(c) Hostilities.
(d) Caresses.

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

15. 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 hate them.
(c) I love them.
(d) I loathe them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

2. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?

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

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

5. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).

(see the answer keys)

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