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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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