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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) Robert Lowell.
(b) Donald Hall.
(c) Galway Kinnell.
(d) Robert Frost.

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

3. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?
(a) Antanaclasis.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Epizeuxis.
(d) Anadiplosis.

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

5. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?

4. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?

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

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