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

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

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

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

5. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?
(a) Unmoving.
(b) Continuing to be.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Nevertheless.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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