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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 need them.
(c) I love them.
(d) I loathe them.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?

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

4. What troubling thing is still "in the world" (24) in the final stanza?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first stanza of "Mock Orange." Who is speaking and to whom? What is she saying?

2. What word or words show the speakers feelings toward sex in stanza 3?

3. How does tone change in the second stanza?

4. Where does the narrative shift in stanza 4? How do you know?

5. How would you describe the speaker's feelings toward men in "Mock Orange"?

6. What are the speaker's feelings toward her partner in the second stanza? How do you know?

7. What does the moon represent in the first stanza of "Mock Orange"?

8. What do you think is the setting in "Mock Orange"?

9. Describe the author's use of enjambment in stanza 4. Why did she use this tool and how does it impact your reading?

10. What do the mock orange flowers represent in the poem?

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