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

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

3. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The wars fought to secure land.
(b) The American people.
(c) The history of the United States.
(d) The American land.

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

5. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.
(b) By finding the courage to fight England.
(c) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.
(d) By realizing our own weakness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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