View a FREE sample

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) Antithesis and synecdoche.
(b) Apostrophe and antithesis.
(c) Synecdoche and asyndeton.
(d) Asyndeton and apostrophe.

2. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?
(a) Continuing to be.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Unmoving.
(d) Nevertheless.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

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

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

5. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 246 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample