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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(c) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(d) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.

2. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(b) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.
(c) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.
(d) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.

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

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

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

6. 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) Things.
(b) Intent.
(c) Many.
(d) Lost.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

2. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?

3. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

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

5. What "Art" does the title refer to?

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