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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. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of mastering loss.
(b) The art of maintaining perspective.
(c) The art of maintaining relationships.
(d) The art of disciplining the emotions.

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

3. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Dramatic irony.
(d) Apostrophe.

4. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.

5. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Parenthetical expressions.
(b) Sentence fragments.
(c) Coordinating conjunctions.
(d) Modifying phrases.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

2. 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"?

3. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?

4. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

5. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

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