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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 kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
(a) Iamb.
(b) Trochee.
(c) Dibrach.
(d) Spondee.

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

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

4. What does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?
(a) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(b) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(c) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(d) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.

5. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) It has an extra line.
(b) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.
(c) It is written in free verse.
(d) Every line is endstopped.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

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

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

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"?

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