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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. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their mother's watch.
(b) Their college diploma.
(c) Their wedding ring.
(d) Their child's artwork.

2. What is the format of "One Art"?
(a) Sonnet.
(b) Sestina.
(c) Villanelle.
(d) Ballad.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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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