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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 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 more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(b) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(c) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(d) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.

2. 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) Intent.
(c) Lost.
(d) Many.

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

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

5. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
(a) Ignoring loss.
(b) Grieving loss.
(c) Conquering loss.
(d) Accepting loss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

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

3. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

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

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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