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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 format of "One Art"?
(a) Sestina.
(b) Ballad.
(c) Villanelle.
(d) Sonnet.

2. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Perfect rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme.

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

4. 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"?
(a) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(b) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(c) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(d) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

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

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

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

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

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