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

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

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

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

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

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

3. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?

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

5. 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)?

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