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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. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Eye rhyme.
(b) Internal rhyme.
(c) Perfect rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

2. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
(a) Ignoring loss.
(b) Accepting loss.
(c) Grieving loss.
(d) Conquering loss.

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

4. What is the format of "One Art"?
(a) Ballad.
(b) Sestina.
(c) Villanelle.
(d) Sonnet.

5. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) AAA.
(b) AAB.
(c) ABB.
(d) ABA.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

4. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

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?

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