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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 the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.
2. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?
(a) Can I ask?
(b) Do you see?
(c) Do you love me?
(d) Didn't you know?
3. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?
(a) The moonlight.
(b) The man's body.
(c) Her bed.
(d) The scent of flowers.
4. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?
(a) Friendships.
(b) Opposites.
(c) Caresses.
(d) Hostilities.
5. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) Streetlights.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Sparklers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?
2. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).
3. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
4. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?
5. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the narrative shift in stanza 4? How do you know?
2. What do you think is the setting in "Mock Orange"?
3. What are the speaker's feelings toward her partner in the second stanza? How do you know?
4. What does the moon represent in the first stanza of "Mock Orange"?
5. Describe the first stanza of "Mock Orange." Who is speaking and to whom? What is she saying?
6. What do the mock orange flowers represent in the poem?
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. How would you describe the speaker's feelings toward men in "Mock Orange"?
9. How does tone change in the second stanza?
10. What word or words show the speakers feelings toward sex in stanza 3?
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