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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. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(b) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(c) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.
(d) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.

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

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

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

5. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Imagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

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

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

4. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas 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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