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

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

2. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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

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