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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 line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Symbolism.

2. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?
(a) Unmoving.
(b) Continuing to be.
(c) Nevertheless.
(d) Quiet.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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