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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?

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

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

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

5. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?

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