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

2. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
(a) Ignoring loss.
(b) Grieving loss.
(c) Accepting loss.
(d) Conquering loss.

3. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) ABA.
(b) AAA.
(c) AAB.
(d) ABB.

4. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?
(a) They create a choppy sound that indicates anger.
(b) They create a rolling rhythm that invokes the light, carefree tone of a nursery rhyme.
(c) They accelerate the pace as the stanza unfolds, creating a sense of urgency.
(d) They slow its pace and create a sense of uncertainty.

5. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Internal rhyme.
(b) Perfect rhyme.
(c) Slant rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

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

5. 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"?

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