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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 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) Alliteration.
(d) Metonymy.

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

3. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Metonymy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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 the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?

5. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?

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