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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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"?
(a) Lost.
(b) Things.
(c) Intent.
(d) Many.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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?

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

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

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