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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. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(b) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(c) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.
(d) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What is the format of "One Art"?

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