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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(b) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(c) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(d) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.

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

5. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.
(b) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

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

14. 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 difficult to live with.
(c) They seem to want to get lost.
(d) They are small and insignificant.

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

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 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 meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

4. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

5. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?

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