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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 cannot find either city.
(c) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(d) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.

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

3. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Interrogative.
(b) Indicative.
(c) Imperative.
(d) Subjunctive.

4. 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) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "One Art"?

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

3. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?

4. 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"?

5. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

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