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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 name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Dactyl.
(b) Tribrach.
(c) Anapest.
(d) Amphibrach.

2. 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) Many.
(b) Lost.
(c) Intent.
(d) Things.

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

4. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Personification.

5. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(b) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.
(c) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(d) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

3. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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