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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) Apostrophe and antithesis.
(d) Asyndeton and apostrophe.

2. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Blank verse.
(b) Heroic verse.
(c) Free verse.
(d) Ballad meter.

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

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

5. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
(a) The Westward expansion of the United States.
(b) The Louisiana Purchase.
(c) The American Civil War.
(d) The forced resettlement of Native peoples.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?

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)?

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

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

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

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