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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What time of day does "Mock Orange" take place?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Twilight.
(c) Night.
(d) Morning.

3. What is the longest stanza in "Mock Orange"?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

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

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

6. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?
(a) It mocks the speaker.
(b) It speaks out of turn.
(c) It lashes out at the speaker.
(d) It seals the speakers mouth.

7. 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.

8. Fill in the missing word from the 4th stanza: "In my _____ tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer" (12-13).
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Heart.
(c) Ears.
(d) Mind.

9. What does the speaker say she is unable to do in the final stanza?
(a) Read or write.
(b) Rest or be content.
(c) Sing or dance.
(d) Make love.

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

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

12. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?
(a) Do you love me?
(b) Didn't you know?
(c) Can I ask?
(d) Do you see?

13. What does the speaker describe as "paralyzing" in the second stanza?
(a) The moonlight.
(b) Her bed.
(c) The scent of flowers.
(d) The man's body.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is mock orange?

4. What is the best definition of the word antagonisms as used in the 4th stanza?

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

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