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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Perfect rhyme.
(b) Slant rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

4. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

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

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