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

2. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The wars fought to secure land.
(b) The American people.
(c) The history of the United States.
(d) The American land.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?

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

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

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

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

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