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

2. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Surrender and salvation.
(b) Americans themselves.
(c) The land Americans live on.
(d) Freedom from England.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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)?

4. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

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

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