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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. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Euphemism.

2. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The forced resettlement of Native peoples.
(c) The Westward expansion of the United States.
(d) The Louisiana Purchase.

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

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

5. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Paradox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?

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

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

4. 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)?

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

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