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

2. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
(a) I love them.
(b) I hate them.
(c) I need them.
(d) I loathe them.

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

4. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?
(a) It mocks the speaker.
(b) It seals the speakers mouth.
(c) It lashes out at the speaker.
(d) It speaks out of turn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?

2. What is mock orange?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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