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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 does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Keys.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Pens.
(d) Socks.

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

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(b) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(c) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(d) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.

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

5. 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) Lost.
(b) Intent.
(c) Things.
(d) Many.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

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

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