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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 indicative mood.
(b) First person and indicative mood.
(c) Second person and imperative mood.
(d) First person and imperative mood.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?
(a) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(b) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(c) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(d) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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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