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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Every line is endstopped.
(d) It is written in free verse.

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

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

7. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of maintaining perspective.
(b) The art of maintaining relationships.
(c) The art of mastering loss.
(d) The art of disciplining the emotions.

8. 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) Dactyl.
(c) Amphibrach.
(d) Anapest.

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

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

11. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Elizabeth Bishop.
(b) Lucille Clifton.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Audre Lourde.

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

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

14. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker cannot find either city.
(b) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(c) The speaker no longer lives in either city.
(d) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?

2. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "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 technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

5. 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?

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