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

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

3. 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?

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "the man's mouth" do in stanza 2?

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

3. What is mock orange?

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

5. What drifts through the window in stanza 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does tone change in the second stanza?

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

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

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

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

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