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

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

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

4. Who is the author of "Mock Orange"?
(a) Louise Glück.
(b) Lois Glickman.
(c) Lane Garcia.
(d) Linda Gordon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).

5. What is mock orange?

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