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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. 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) Things.
(b) Lost.
(c) Many.
(d) Intent.

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

3. 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 are part of a distant past.
(c) They seem to want to get lost.
(d) They are difficult to live with.

4. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Lucille Clifton.
(b) Audre Lourde.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Elizabeth Bishop.

5. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Pens.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Socks.
(d) Keys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?

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

4. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?

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

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