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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 is mock orange?
(a) A color.
(b) A flower.
(c) A houseplant.
(d) A fruit.
2. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?
(a) They were made fun of.
(b) They were perfectly united.
(c) They drift apart.
(d) They were made fools of.
3. What line in stanza one suggests the narrator is speaking to somebody?
(a) Do you see.
(b) I tell you.
(c) I mean to say.
(d) Don't you know.
4. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.
5. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
(a) Humbling.
(b) Horrific.
(c) Humiliating.
(d) Histrionic.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?
2. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
3. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).
4. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?
5. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?
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. What are the speaker's feelings toward her partner in the second stanza? How do you know?
3. What do you think is the setting in "Mock Orange"?
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. Where does the narrative shift in stanza 4? How do you know?
7. What do the mock orange flowers represent in the poem?
8. How would you describe the speaker's feelings toward men in "Mock Orange"?
9. Describe the first stanza of "Mock Orange." Who is speaking and to whom? What is she saying?
10. How does tone change in the second stanza?
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