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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) Livid.
(b) Bewildered.
(c) Ebullient.
(d) Sanguine.

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

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

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

5. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are part of a distant past.
(b) They seem to want to get lost.
(c) They are difficult to live with.
(d) They are small and insignificant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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