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

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

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

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

5. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Anaphora.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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