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

2. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
(a) First person and indicative mood.
(b) First person and imperative mood.
(c) Second person and imperative mood.
(d) Second person and indicative mood.

3. 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?
(a) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(b) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(c) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(d) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.

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

5. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of disciplining the emotions.
(b) The art of mastering loss.
(c) The art of maintaining perspective.
(d) The art of maintaining relationships.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?

3. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?

4. 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?

5. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

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