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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

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

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

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

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