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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 houseplant.
(c) A fruit.
(d) A flower.

2. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?
(a) They drift apart.
(b) They were perfectly united.
(c) They were made fun of.
(d) They were made fools of.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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

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

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