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

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

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

4. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The forced resettlement of Native peoples.
(c) The Louisiana Purchase.
(d) The Westward expansion of the United States.

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)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?

2. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?

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

4. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?

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

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