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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 wars fought to secure land.
(b) The American people.
(c) The American land.
(d) The history of the United States.

2. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?
(a) Antithesis and synecdoche.
(b) Synecdoche and asyndeton.
(c) Asyndeton and apostrophe.
(d) Apostrophe and antithesis.

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

4. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Euphemism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?

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

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

4. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?

5. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?

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