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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Tribrach.
(b) Amphibrach.
(c) Anapest.
(d) Dactyl.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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 slow its pace and create a sense of uncertainty.
(c) They create a rolling rhythm that invokes the light, carefree tone of a nursery rhyme.
(d) They create a choppy sound that indicates anger.

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

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

12. 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) Many.
(c) Intent.
(d) Lost.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

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

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

4. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

5. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

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