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

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

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

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

5. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Assonance.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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