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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 phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Euphemism.

2. 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) Metonymy.
(d) Alliteration.

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

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

5. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The American land.
(b) The American people.
(c) The wars fought to secure land.
(d) The history of the United States.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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