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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. Which word in lines 10 and 11, "And look! my last,/ or next-to-last, of three loved houses went," creates a momentary shift in verb mood?
(a) The word "look."
(b) The word "loved."
(c) The word "next."
(d) The word "went."

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

3. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

2. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

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

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

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

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