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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "One Art" lines 1-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Lucille Clifton.
(b) Audre Lourde.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Elizabeth Bishop.

2. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) It has an extra line.
(b) It is written in free verse.
(c) Every line is endstopped.
(d) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.

3. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are small and insignificant.
(b) They are difficult to live with.
(c) They are part of a distant past.
(d) They seem to want to get lost.

4. What is a reasonable statement to make about the effect of the enjambment in lines 8 and 9, "places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel"?
(a) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(b) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(c) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(d) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.

5. What is the format of "One Art"?
(a) Ballad.
(b) Sestina.
(c) Villanelle.
(d) Sonnet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

2. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?

3. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

4. What "Art" does the title refer to?

5. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

(see the answer key)

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