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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. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Internal rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) Perfect rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

2. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Bewildered.
(b) Livid.
(c) Sanguine.
(d) Ebullient.

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

4. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of mastering loss.
(b) The art of maintaining relationships.
(c) The art of maintaining perspective.
(d) The art of disciplining the emotions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?

2. Who is the author of "One Art"?

3. What is the format of "One Art"?

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

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

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