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

2. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
(a) Trochee.
(b) Dibrach.
(c) Spondee.
(d) Iamb.

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"?
(a) Intent.
(b) Lost.
(c) Many.
(d) Things.

4. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) It has an extra line.
(b) Every line is endstopped.
(c) It is written in free verse.
(d) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.

5. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.
(b) Tiring inconvenience.
(c) Confused agitation.
(d) Humorous coincidence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

3. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?

4. 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?

5. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

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