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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The word "next."
(b) The word "loved."
(c) The word "look."
(d) The word "went."

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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) Hyperbole.
(c) Personification.
(d) Imagery.

6. 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) Many.
(c) Things.
(d) Lost.

7. 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 the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(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 irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.

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

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

10. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are difficult to live with.
(b) They seem to want to get lost.
(c) They are part of a distant past.
(d) They are small and insignificant.

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

12. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?
(a) They slow its pace and create a sense of uncertainty.
(b) They create a choppy sound that indicates anger.
(c) They create a rolling rhythm that invokes the light, carefree tone of a nursery rhyme.
(d) They accelerate the pace as the stanza unfolds, creating a sense of urgency.

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

14. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their college diploma.
(b) Their child's artwork.
(c) Their wedding ring.
(d) Their mother's watch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

2. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

3. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

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

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

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