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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 does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Keys.
(b) Socks.
(c) Glasses.
(d) Pens.

2. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Parenthetical expressions.
(b) Modifying phrases.
(c) Sentence fragments.
(d) Coordinating conjunctions.

3. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Perfect rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many lines does "One Art" have?

3. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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