1. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
(a) Grieving loss.
(b) Conquering loss.
(c) Accepting loss.
(d) Ignoring loss.

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

3. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(b) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.
(c) The speaker no longer lives in either city.
(d) The speaker cannot find either city.

4. 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"?
(a) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(b) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(c) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(d) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.

5. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(b) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(c) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(d) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.