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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing the overall structure of "Mock Orange." What effect does this have on the poem and the reader? Use direct examples from the poem to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 2

Who is being addressed in "Mock Orange"? How do you know? Use details from the poem to explain.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring the central purpose of this poem. What response do you think the author hoped to get from her readers? Do you think she was successful? Why or why not?

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