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

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

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

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

5. 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"?
(a) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(b) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(c) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(d) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.

Short Answer Questions

1. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?

2. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?

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"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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 change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?

7. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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