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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 does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Keys.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Socks.
(d) Pens.
2. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) AAA.
(b) AAB.
(c) ABB.
(d) ABA.
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) Many.
(b) Intent.
(c) Things.
(d) Lost.
4. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.
(b) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(c) The speaker no longer lives in either city.
(d) The speaker cannot find either city.
5. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of maintaining relationships.
(b) The art of mastering loss.
(c) The art of disciplining the emotions.
(d) The art of maintaining perspective.
Short Answer Questions
1. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
2. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
3. What is a reasonable statement to make about the effect of the enjambment in lines 8 and 9, "places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel"?
4. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
5. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
2. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
3. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
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. Describe the form of "One Art."
6. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
7. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
8. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
9. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
10. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
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