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

2. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?
(a) Antithesis and synecdoche.
(b) Asyndeton and apostrophe.
(c) Synecdoche and asyndeton.
(d) Apostrophe and antithesis.

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

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

5. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Personification.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Symbolism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?

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

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

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

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

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