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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 used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Sentence fragments.
(b) Modifying phrases.
(c) Parenthetical expressions.
(d) Coordinating conjunctions.

2. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They seem to want to get lost.
(b) They are small and insignificant.
(c) They are part of a distant past.
(d) They are difficult to live with.

3. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Subjunctive.
(b) Imperative.
(c) Interrogative.
(d) Indicative.

4. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Perfect rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) Internal rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

5. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) AAB.
(b) AAA.
(c) ABB.
(d) ABA.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is the format of "One Art"?

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

5. What is a reasonable statement to make about the effect of the enjambment in lines 8 and 9, "places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel"?

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