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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 word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
(a) Horrific.
(b) Histrionic.
(c) Humiliating.
(d) Humbling.

2. What is mock orange?
(a) A fruit.
(b) A houseplant.
(c) A color.
(d) A flower.

3. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?
(a) Read or write.
(b) Sing or dance.
(c) Rest or be content.
(d) Make love.

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

5. 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 need them.
(c) I hate them.
(d) I loathe them.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

4. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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