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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. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

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

3. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker cannot find either city.
(b) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.
(c) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(d) The speaker no longer lives in either city.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

(see the answer key)

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