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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 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) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(c) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(d) Antithesis and oxymoron.

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

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

4. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Euphemism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?

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

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

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

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