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

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)?
(a) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(b) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
(c) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(d) Antithesis and oxymoron.

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

4. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.
(b) By finding the courage to fight England.
(c) By realizing our own weakness.
(d) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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