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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the format of "One Art"?
(a) Ballad.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Villanelle.
(d) Sestina.

3. 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 "look."
(b) The word "next."
(c) The word "went."
(d) The word "loved."

4. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Sentence fragments.
(b) Parenthetical expressions.
(c) Coordinating conjunctions.
(d) Modifying phrases.

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

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

7. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Understatement.

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

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

10. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Subjunctive.
(b) Interrogative.
(c) Imperative.
(d) Indicative.

11. What does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?
(a) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(b) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(c) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(d) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.

12. 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 extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(c) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.
(d) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.

13. 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 are small and insignificant.
(c) They are part of a distant past.
(d) They seem to want to get lost.

14. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Keys.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Pens.
(d) Socks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?

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

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

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 is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

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