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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 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) Every line is endstopped.
(d) It is written in free verse.

2. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Audre Lourde.
(c) Elizabeth Bishop.
(d) Lucille Clifton.

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

4. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Socks.
(b) Keys.
(c) Pens.
(d) Glasses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

3. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

4. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

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"?

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