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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. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Livid.
(b) Ebullient.
(c) Bewildered.
(d) Sanguine.

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

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

4. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.
(b) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(c) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.
(d) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

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

3. Who is the author of "One Art"?

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"?

5. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

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