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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. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Antanaclasis.
(d) Anadiplosis.

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

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

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

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)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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