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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. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Blank verse.
(b) Ballad meter.
(c) Free verse.
(d) Heroic verse.

2. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?
(a) Antanaclasis.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Epistrophe.
(d) Epizeuxis.

3. 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) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
(b) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(c) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(d) Antithesis and oxymoron.

4. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?
(a) Americans.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Revolutionaries.
(d) Colonists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

2. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?

3. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?

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

5. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?

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