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

2. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Tribrach.
(b) Amphibrach.
(c) Dactyl.
(d) Anapest.

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

4. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?
(a) They accelerate the pace as the stanza unfolds, creating a sense of urgency.
(b) They slow its pace and create a sense of uncertainty.
(c) They create a choppy sound that indicates anger.
(d) They create a rolling rhythm that invokes the light, carefree tone of a nursery rhyme.

5. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.
(b) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(c) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.
(d) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

3. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?

4. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?

5. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?

(see the answer key)

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