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

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

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

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

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

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

3. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

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

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

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