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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 second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
(a) Ignoring loss.
(b) Grieving loss.
(c) Conquering loss.
(d) Accepting loss.

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

3. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of disciplining the emotions.
(b) The art of maintaining relationships.
(c) The art of mastering loss.
(d) The art of maintaining perspective.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

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

4. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

5. 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"?

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