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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. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

2. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 20.
(b) 17.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

3. 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 the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(c) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(d) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

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 does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

(see the answer key)

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