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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. 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 people.
(d) The American land.

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

3. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By finding the courage to fight England.
(b) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.
(c) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.
(d) By realizing our own weakness.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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