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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Sarcasm.

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

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

6. 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.

7. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Indicative.
(b) Subjunctive.
(c) Interrogative.
(d) Imperative.

8. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker cannot find either city.
(b) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.
(c) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(d) The speaker no longer lives in either city.

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

10. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
(a) Iamb.
(b) Trochee.
(c) Dibrach.
(d) Spondee.

11. 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?
(a) The word "went."
(b) The word "look."
(c) The word "loved."
(d) The word "next."

12. 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"?
(a) Intent.
(b) Lost.
(c) Many.
(d) Things.

13. What is the format of "One Art"?
(a) Sonnet.
(b) Sestina.
(c) Ballad.
(d) Villanelle.

14. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(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 repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. 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"?

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

5. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

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