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

2. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Tiring inconvenience.
(b) Humorous coincidence.
(c) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.
(d) Confused agitation.

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

4. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
(a) Iamb.
(b) Spondee.
(c) Trochee.
(d) Dibrach.

5. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Lucille Clifton.
(b) Audre Lourde.
(c) Elizabeth Bishop.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the format of "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 is the best description of the tone of stanza one?

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