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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 mock orange?
(a) A color.
(b) A fruit.
(c) A houseplant.
(d) A flower.

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

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

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

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

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

4. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

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

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