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

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

3. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Free verse.
(b) Blank verse.
(c) Ballad meter.
(d) Heroic verse.

4. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The Louisiana Purchase.
(c) The Westward expansion of the United States.
(d) The forced resettlement of Native peoples.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?

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

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

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

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

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