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Section 1: "The Gift Outright," Lines 1-16

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

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

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

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

5. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) Columbus's voyage.
(d) The American Civil War.

6. 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) Personification.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Metonymy.

7. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?
(a) Antithesis and synecdoche.
(b) Apostrophe and antithesis.
(c) Asyndeton and apostrophe.
(d) Synecdoche and asyndeton.

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