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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their mother's watch.
(b) Their college diploma.
(c) Their child's artwork.
(d) Their wedding ring.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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 rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the form of "One Art."

2. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?

3. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?

4. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?

5. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?

6. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?

7. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?

8. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?

9. To whom is the parenthetical comment "(Write it!)" addressed in line 19, and how does this comment impact the reader's understanding of the poem?

10. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?

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