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

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

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

4. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

5. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) ABA.
(b) AAA.
(c) AAB.
(d) ABB.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines does "One Art" have?

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

3. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

4. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

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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