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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) Pens.
(b) Socks.
(c) Glasses.
(d) Keys.

2. 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) Hyperbole.
(c) Personification.
(d) Simile.

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) Every line is endstopped.
(d) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.

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

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. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

2. What "Art" does the title refer to?

3. What is a reasonable statement to make about the effect of the enjambment in lines 8 and 9, "places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel"?

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

5. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?

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