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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) Heroic verse.
(b) Free verse.
(c) Blank verse.
(d) Ballad meter.

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

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

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

5. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The American people.
(b) The wars fought to secure land.
(c) The American land.
(d) The history of the United States.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?

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

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

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

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