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

2. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) It is written in free verse.
(b) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.
(c) It has an extra line.
(d) Every line is endstopped.

3. 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?
(a) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(b) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(c) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(d) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

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

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

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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

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