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

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

3. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Confused agitation.
(b) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.
(c) Humorous coincidence.
(d) Tiring inconvenience.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

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

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

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

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

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