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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 is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?

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

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

4. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?

5. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the use of imagery in "Mock Orange." How does the use of imagery develop the themes of the poem? How does imagery impact your understanding of the poem?

Essay Topic 2

Write an analysis of the final stanza of "Mock Orange." How does this stanza fit into the overall poem? Do you think this was an effective ending? What theme might the ending represent? What might the author have done differently?

Essay Topic 3

Who is the speaker of "Mock Orange"? How do you know? Use details from the poem to explain.

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