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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 does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?
(a) The land Americans live on.
(b) Surrender and salvation.
(c) Americans themselves.
(d) Freedom from England.

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

3. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?
(a) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).
(b) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(c) "Something we were withholding" (line 8).
(d) "Still colonials" (line 5).

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?

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

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

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

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

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