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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?

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