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

2. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Keys.
(c) Socks.
(d) Pens.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "Art" does the title refer to?

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

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

4. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the form of "One Art."

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