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

3. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?
(a) Can I ask?
(b) Do you love me?
(c) Didn't you know?
(d) Do you see?

4. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?
(a) The scent of flowers.
(b) The man's body.
(c) The moonlight.
(d) Her bed.

5. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?
(a) The scent of mock orange.
(b) The scent of morning dew.
(c) The evening breeze.
(d) The light from the moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is mock orange?

2. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?

3. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?

4. What does the speaker say has happened to herself and her addressee in stanza 4?

5. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?

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

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

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

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

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 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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