It should probably be 10 gallons because 10 quarts is equal to about 10 liters and 10 gallons is equal to 30 something liters..
A. It was an intense game. It was down to the wire.
The feature that makes this excerpt a blank verse is that , while it does not present rhyme, it does present iambic pentameter.
Iambic pentamenter consists of lines of five <em>feet</em>, with each <em>foot </em>being two syllables long, one unstressed followed by one stressed syllable. The result is that each verse sounds like it has a heart beat rhythm.
It would most likely be in the sound category