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

2. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?
(a) Caresses.
(b) Hostilities.
(c) Opposites.
(d) Friendships.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is mock orange?

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

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

5. What are "lighting the yard" (3) in the first stanza?

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