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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 imperative mood.
(d) First person and indicative mood.

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

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 "went."
(c) The word "loved."
(d) The word "next."

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"?
(a) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(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 an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.

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

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

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

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) Amphibrach.
(b) Dactyl.
(c) Tribrach.
(d) Anapest.

9. 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) Many.
(c) Intent.
(d) Things.

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

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

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

13. 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 difficult to live with.
(c) They are part of a distant past.
(d) They are small and insignificant.

14. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Personification.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

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

3. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

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

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

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