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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 is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Livid.
(b) Ebullient.
(c) Sanguine.
(d) Bewildered.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

2. 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?

3. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

4. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

5. What is a reasonable statement to make about the effect of the enjambment in lines 8 and 9, "places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel"?

(see the answer key)

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