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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

5. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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