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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 are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) Streetlights.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Sparklers.
2. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?
(a) Men.
(b) The moon.
(c) The night.
(d) Sex.
3. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?
(a) The evening breeze.
(b) The scent of mock orange.
(c) The scent of morning dew.
(d) The light from the moon.
4. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Ears.
(c) Mind.
(d) Heart.
5. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?
(a) Do you see?
(b) Can I ask?
(c) Do you love me?
(d) Didn't you know?
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
2. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
3. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?
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. What do you think is the setting in "Mock Orange"?
2. What word or words show the speakers feelings toward sex in stanza 3?
3. What do the mock orange flowers represent in the poem?
4. Describe the author's use of enjambment in stanza 4. Why did she use this tool and how does it impact your reading?
5. Where does the narrative shift in stanza 4? How do you know?
6. How would you describe the speaker's feelings toward men in "Mock Orange"?
7. What are the speaker's feelings toward her partner in the second stanza? How do you know?
8. What does the moon represent in the first stanza of "Mock Orange"?
9. How does tone change in the second stanza?
10. Describe the first stanza of "Mock Orange." Who is speaking and to whom? What is she saying?
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