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

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

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

4. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?

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

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