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

2. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of maintaining relationships.
(b) The art of maintaining perspective.
(c) The art of disciplining the emotions.
(d) The art of mastering loss.

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

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

5. 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?
(a) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(b) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(c) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(d) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

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

5. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

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