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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 1 - 24 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

2. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Streetlights.
(d) Sparklers.

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

4. What does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?
(a) The cry.
(b) Her thoughts.
(c) The man.
(d) Her tears.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is mock orange?

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

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

4. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?

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

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