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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

2. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?

3. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

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

5. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

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