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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 meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.
(b) Humorous coincidence.
(c) Tiring inconvenience.
(d) Confused agitation.

2. 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 part of a distant past.
(c) They are small and insignificant.
(d) They seem to want to get lost.

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

4. 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."

5. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(b) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(c) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.
(d) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

2. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

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

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

5. 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"?

(see the answer key)

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