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

2. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.
(b) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.
(c) By finding the courage to fight England.
(d) By realizing our own weakness.

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

4. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(d) Columbus's voyage.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?

3. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?

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

5. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?

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