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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 does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?
(a) Sex.
(b) The night.
(c) Men.
(d) The moon.

2. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?
(a) 2.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

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

4. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?
(a) I loathe them.
(b) I hate them.
(c) I need them.
(d) I love them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

2. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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