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

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

3. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).
(a) Mind.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Heart.
(d) Ears.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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