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

2. What word is missing from the following line from stanza 3: "the low, ___________/ premise of union" (10-11).
(a) Humbling.
(b) Humiliating.
(c) Histrionic.
(d) Horrific.

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

4. What troubling thing is still "in the world" (24) in the final stanza?
(a) That moon.
(b) That person.
(c) Her thoughts.
(d) That odor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?

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

4. What is mock orange?

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

(see the answer key)

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