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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 meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Humorous coincidence.
(b) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.
(c) Tiring inconvenience.
(d) Confused agitation.

2. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Amphibrach.
(b) Anapest.
(c) Tribrach.
(d) Dactyl.

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

4. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
(a) Second person and indicative mood.
(b) First person and imperative mood.
(c) Second person and imperative mood.
(d) First person and indicative mood.

5. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(b) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.
(c) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(d) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?

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

3. Who is the author of "One Art"?

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

5. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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