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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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