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

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

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

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

5. 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) Intent.
(c) Lost.
(d) Things.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

3. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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