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

2. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of maintaining relationships.
(b) The art of disciplining the emotions.
(c) The art of maintaining perspective.
(d) The art of mastering loss.

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

4. Which word in lines 10 and 11, "And look! my last,/ or next-to-last, of three loved houses went," creates a momentary shift in verb mood?
(a) The word "loved."
(b) The word "next."
(c) The word "went."
(d) The word "look."

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) Many.
(c) Things.
(d) Intent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

2. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

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

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

5. What is the format of "One Art"?

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