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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. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 19.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.
2. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.
3. 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) Lost.
(d) Intent.
4. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Modifying phrases.
(b) Parenthetical expressions.
(c) Coordinating conjunctions.
(d) Sentence fragments.
5. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of maintaining perspective.
(b) The art of mastering loss.
(c) The art of disciplining the emotions.
(d) The art of maintaining relationships.
Short Answer Questions
1. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
2. 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?
3. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?
4. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?
5. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
Short Essay Questions
1. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
2. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
3. Describe the form of "One Art."
4. 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?
5. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
6. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
7. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
8. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
9. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
10. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
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