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Mock Orange Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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

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

3. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?
(a) Morning.
(b) Night.
(c) Twilight.
(d) Afternoon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What line in stanza one suggests the narrator is speaking to somebody?

2. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

3. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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