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

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 does the speaker say "always escapes" in stanza 3?
(a) The cry.
(b) Her tears.
(c) Her thoughts.
(d) The man.

4. How many stanzas are in the poem "Mock Orange"?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker explicitly say she hates in the second stanza?

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

3. What does the narrator repeat in stanza 2 in reference to the flowers she mentions in the first stanza?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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