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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Gift Outright," Lines 1-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Galway Kinnell.
(c) Robert Lowell.
(d) Donald Hall.

2. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Anaphora.

3. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Anadiplosis.

4. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Freedom from England.
(b) Surrender and salvation.
(c) Americans themselves.
(d) The land Americans live on.

5. What techniques are used in the lines "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,/ Possessed by what we now no more possessed" (lines 6-7)?
(a) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(b) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
(c) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(d) Antithesis and oxymoron.

Short Answer Questions

1. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?

2. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?

3. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

4. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?

5. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?

(see the answer key)

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