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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. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The history of the United States.
(b) The American people.
(c) The wars fought to secure land.
(d) The American land.

2. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Allegory.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?

3. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?

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

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

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