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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(d) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.

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

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

9. 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 is no longer interested in either city.
(c) The speaker cannot find either city.
(d) The speaker is not welcome in either city.

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

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

3. Who is the author of "One Art"?

4. 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?

5. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

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