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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. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are part of a distant past.
(b) They are difficult to live with.
(c) They seem to want to get lost.
(d) They are small and insignificant.

2. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 20.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 19.

3. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their mother's watch.
(b) Their college diploma.
(c) Their wedding ring.
(d) Their child's artwork.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?

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

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?

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

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