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

2. 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.

3. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) ABA.
(b) AAB.
(c) AAA.
(d) ABB.

4. 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 no longer lives in either city.
(c) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.
(d) The speaker is not welcome in either city.

5. 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 "loved."
(c) The word "next."
(d) The word "look."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

2. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

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

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

5. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

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