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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 the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Personification.
(d) Symbolism.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

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

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

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

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