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

2. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 20.
(b) 19.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?

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

3. 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"?

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

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?

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