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

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

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

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

5. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?
(a) "Still colonials" (line 5).
(b) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(c) "Something we were withholding" (line 8).
(d) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?

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

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

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

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

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