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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 does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?
(a) The land Americans live on.
(b) Americans themselves.
(c) Freedom from England.
(d) Surrender and salvation.

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

3. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?
(a) Revolutionaries.
(b) Americans.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Colonists.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?

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)?

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