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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) Unmoving.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Nevertheless.
(d) Continuing to be.

2. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Euphemism.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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)?

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

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

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