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

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

3. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Personification.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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 line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?

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

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

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