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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) Heroic verse.
(b) Blank verse.
(c) Free verse.
(d) Ballad meter.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?

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