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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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) Thoughts.
(d) Mind.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?

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

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

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

5. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

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