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

2. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker cannot find either city.
(b) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(c) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.
(d) The speaker no longer lives in either city.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

4. What is the format of "One Art"?

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

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