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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 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 a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(b) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(c) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(d) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."

2. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 19.
(b) 17.
(c) 20.
(d) 18.

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(b) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(c) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(d) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.

4. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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?
(a) The word "loved."
(b) The word "look."
(c) The word "next."
(d) The word "went."

Short Answer 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?

2. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

3. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?

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

5. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

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