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

2. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Symbolism.

3. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?
(a) "Still colonials" (line 5).
(b) "Something we were withholding" (line 8).
(c) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(d) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).

4. 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) Metonymy.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Alliteration.

5. 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) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(c) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
(d) Oxymoron and epistrophe.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?

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

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

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