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

2. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Colonists.
(c) Revolutionaries.
(d) Americans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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