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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. 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 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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