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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) Unmoving.
(b) Nevertheless.
(c) Continuing to be.
(d) Quiet.

2. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Symbolism.

3. 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) Metonymy.
(c) Personification.
(d) Symbolism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What techniques are used in the lines "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,/ Possessed by what we now no more possessed" (lines 6-7)?

3. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?

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

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

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