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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) Perfect rhyme.
(b) Slant rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme.

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

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

4. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

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

3. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

4. 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?

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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