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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 does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
(a) Grieving loss.
(b) Conquering loss.
(c) Accepting loss.
(d) Ignoring loss.

2. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

3. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their child's artwork.
(b) Their wedding ring.
(c) Their college diploma.
(d) Their mother's watch.

4. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.
(b) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(c) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(d) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "Art" does the title refer to?

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

3. Who is the author of "One Art"?

4. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

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

(see the answer key)

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