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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 is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Interrogative.
(b) Indicative.
(c) Imperative.
(d) Subjunctive.

2. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
(a) First person and imperative mood.
(b) Second person and indicative mood.
(c) First person and indicative mood.
(d) Second person and imperative mood.

3. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Socks.
(c) Pens.
(d) Keys.

4. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(b) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(c) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(d) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines does "One Art" have?

2. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

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

4. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

5. What is the format of "One Art"?

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