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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. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Freedom from England.
(b) The land Americans live on.
(c) Surrender and salvation.
(d) Americans themselves.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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