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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 scent of mock orange.
(b) The evening breeze.
(c) The light from the moon.
(d) The scent of morning dew.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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