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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
(a) Dibrach.
(b) Iamb.
(c) Trochee.
(d) Spondee.

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

7. 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 a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(b) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(c) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(d) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

14. 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 exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "Art" does the title refer to?

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

3. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

4. 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"?

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

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