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

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

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

4. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?
(a) "Still colonials" (line 5).
(b) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(c) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).
(d) "Something we were withholding" (line 8).

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?

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

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

4. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?

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

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