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

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

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

4. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Epizeuxis.
(c) Antanaclasis.
(d) Epistrophe.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

4. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?

5. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?

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