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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is mock orange?

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

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

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

5. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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