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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) Donald Hall.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Galway Kinnell.
(d) Robert Lowell.

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

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

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

5. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(c) Columbus's voyage.
(d) The American Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?

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

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

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

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

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