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

2. In lines 2 and 3, "so many things seem filled with the intent/ to be lost that their loss is no disaster," what is the antecedent of the word "their"?
(a) Lost.
(b) Things.
(c) Many.
(d) Intent.

3. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Personification.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Imagery.

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

5. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.
(b) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(c) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(d) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

3. What does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?

4. Which word in lines 10 and 11, "And look! my last,/ or next-to-last, of three loved houses went," creates a momentary shift in verb mood?

5. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

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