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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. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Bewildered.
(b) Ebullient.
(c) Sanguine.
(d) Livid.

2. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Internal rhyme.
(b) Perfect rhyme.
(c) Slant rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

3. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
(a) Grieving loss.
(b) Ignoring loss.
(c) Accepting loss.
(d) Conquering loss.

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

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) Lost.
(b) Many.
(c) Intent.
(d) Things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

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

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

4. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

5. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. Describe the form of "One Art."

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