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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 verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Subjunctive.
(b) Imperative.
(c) Interrogative.
(d) Indicative.

2. 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 no longer lives in either city.
(c) The speaker cannot find either city.
(d) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.

3. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Pens.
(b) Socks.
(c) Keys.
(d) Glasses.

4. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are part of a distant past.
(b) They seem to want to get lost.
(c) They are difficult to live with.
(d) They are small and insignificant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the format of "One Art"?

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

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

4. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

5. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

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