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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.

7. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are part of a distant past.
(b) They are difficult to live with.
(c) They seem to want to get lost.
(d) They are small and insignificant.

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

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

10. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

11. 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 examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(b) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(c) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(d) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.

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

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

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

15. 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) Anapest.
(c) Dactyl.
(d) Amphibrach.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

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