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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 most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker no longer lives in either city.
(b) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(c) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.
(d) The speaker cannot find either city.

2. 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"?
(a) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(b) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(c) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(d) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.

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

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

5. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Elizabeth Bishop.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Audre Lourde.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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