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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 line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Anaphora.

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

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

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) Personification.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Alliteration.

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

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. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?

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

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

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

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