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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) Imperative.
(b) Subjunctive.
(c) Interrogative.
(d) Indicative.

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

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

4. In lines 2 and 3, "so many things seem filled with the intent/ to be lost that their loss is no disaster," what is the antecedent of the word "their"?
(a) Many.
(b) Lost.
(c) Intent.
(d) Things.

5. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Imagery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

3. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

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"?

5. What "Art" does the title refer to?

(see the answer key)

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