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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is asked in the fourth stanza?

2. What is mock orange?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think is the setting in "Mock Orange"?

2. Describe the first stanza of "Mock Orange." Who is speaking and to whom? What is she saying?

3. What are the speaker's feelings toward her partner in the second stanza? How do you know?

4. How would you describe the speaker's feelings toward men in "Mock Orange"?

5. What does the moon represent in the first stanza of "Mock Orange"?

6. How does tone change in the second stanza?

7. What do the mock orange flowers represent in the poem?

8. Describe the author's use of enjambment in stanza 4. Why did she use this tool and how does it impact your reading?

9. What word or words show the speakers feelings toward sex in stanza 3?

10. Where does the narrative shift in stanza 4? How do you know?

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