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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Many.
(b) Lost.
(c) Intent.
(d) Things.

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

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

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

5. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are small and insignificant.
(b) They are difficult to live with.
(c) They seem to want to get lost.
(d) They are part of a distant past.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

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

4. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?

2. Describe the form of "One Art."

3. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?

4. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?

5. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?

6. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?

7. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?

8. To whom is the parenthetical comment "(Write it!)" addressed in line 19, and how does this comment impact the reader's understanding of the poem?

9. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?

10. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?

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