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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) Sestina.
(d) Sonnet.

2. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. 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?
(a) The word "look."
(b) The word "went."
(c) The word "next."
(d) The word "loved."

4. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 18.
(b) 19.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.

5. 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?
(a) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(b) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(c) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(d) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.

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

3. 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"?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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