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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) Sanguine.
(b) Livid.
(c) Ebullient.
(d) Bewildered.
2. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.
3. 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 are difficult to live with.
(c) They are small and insignificant.
(d) They seem to want to get lost.
4. 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"?
(a) Many.
(b) Intent.
(c) Lost.
(d) Things.
5. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 19.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
2. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
3. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
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. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
3. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
4. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
5. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
6. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
7. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
8. Describe the form of "One Art."
9. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
10. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
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