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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Perfect rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme.

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

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

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

5. 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) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(d) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.

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

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

8. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 19.
(b) 17.
(c) 20.
(d) 18.

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

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

11. 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"?
(a) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(b) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(c) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(d) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.

12. 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."

13. 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 "loved."
(b) The word "next."
(c) The word "went."
(d) The word "look."

14. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
(a) Second person and indicative mood.
(b) Second person and imperative mood.
(c) First person and indicative mood.
(d) First person and imperative mood.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "One Art"?

3. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

4. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

5. 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"?

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