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

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

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

4. 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) Symbolism.
(c) Personification.
(d) Alliteration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?

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

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

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

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

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