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

2. 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 repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.
(d) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.

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

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

5. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Tribrach.
(b) Dactyl.
(c) Anapest.
(d) Amphibrach.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

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

4. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

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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