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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 7 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is the author of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Galway Kinnell.
(b) Donald Hall.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Robert Lowell.
2. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.
(b) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.
(c) By finding the courage to fight England.
(d) By realizing our own weakness.
3. 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) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(b) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(c) Antithesis and oxymoron.
(d) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
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. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Ballad meter.
(b) Heroic verse.
(c) Blank verse.
(d) Free verse.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?
2. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
3. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
4. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
5. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the poem's title.
2. Explain the synecdoche in line 4, "In Massachusetts, in Virginia."
3. To whom is it implied the pronouns "our" and "we" refer in this poem?
4. What is implied by the diction the speaker uses to describe the lands yet to be conquered by American settlers: "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
5. What does the speaker mean by "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
6. Describe the form of "The Gift Outright."
7. What does the speaker claim makes the colonists "weak," and what is the solution to this weakness (line 8)?
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