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

2. 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.

3. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Confused agitation.
(b) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.
(c) Humorous coincidence.
(d) Tiring inconvenience.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

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

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

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

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