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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 mastering loss.
(b) The art of maintaining relationships.
(c) The art of maintaining perspective.
(d) The art of disciplining the emotions.

2. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(b) The speaker no longer lives in either city.
(c) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.
(d) The speaker cannot find either city.

3. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Subjunctive.
(b) Indicative.
(c) Imperative.
(d) Interrogative.

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

5. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Apostrophe.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

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

4. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

9. 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?

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

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