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

2. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The history of the United States.
(b) The wars fought to secure land.
(c) The American land.
(d) The American people.

3. 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) Symbolism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Personification.

4. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(b) The American Civil War.
(c) Columbus's voyage.
(d) The American Revolution.

5. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Revolutionaries.
(c) Colonists.
(d) Americans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "The Gift Outright"?

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

4. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?

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

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