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

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

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

4. 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) Metonymy.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Alliteration.

5. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?
(a) "Still colonials" (line 5).
(b) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).
(c) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(d) "Something we were withholding" (line 8).

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

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

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

5. 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)?

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