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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 child's artwork.
(b) Their mother's watch.
(c) Their wedding ring.
(d) Their college diploma.

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

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

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

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

6. 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 create a choppy sound that indicates anger.
(c) They accelerate the pace as the stanza unfolds, creating a sense of urgency.
(d) They slow its pace and create a sense of uncertainty.

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

8. 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 exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(c) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(d) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.

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

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

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

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

13. 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 "loved."
(b) The word "next."
(c) The word "went."
(d) The word "look."

14. 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 examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(b) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(c) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(d) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.

15. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) Every line is endstopped.
(b) It is written in free verse.
(c) It has an extra line.
(d) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

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

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

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