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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. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Ebullient.
(b) Livid.
(c) Sanguine.
(d) Bewildered.
2. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
(a) Second person and indicative mood.
(b) First person and imperative mood.
(c) Second person and imperative mood.
(d) First person and indicative mood.
3. 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) Simile.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.
4. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(b) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.
(c) The speaker no longer lives in either city.
(d) The speaker cannot find either city.
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 that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(b) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(c) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(d) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
2. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
3. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
4. 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"?
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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