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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "One Art" lines 1-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 19.
(b) 20.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

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

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

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?
(a) The word "next."
(b) The word "went."
(c) The word "look."
(d) The word "loved."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

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"?

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

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