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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 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) Americans themselves.
(d) Surrender and salvation.

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

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

4. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Anaphora.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What techniques are used in the lines "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,/ Possessed by what we now no more possessed" (lines 6-7)?

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