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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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