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

2. 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 some of the last things that a person loses.
(c) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(d) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.

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

4. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
(a) First person and imperative mood.
(b) Second person and imperative mood.
(c) Second person and indicative mood.
(d) First person and indicative mood.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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