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

2. What line in stanza one suggests the narrator is speaking to somebody?
(a) I tell you.
(b) I mean to say.
(c) Don't you know.
(d) Do you see.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?

2. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?

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

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

5. What is mock orange?

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