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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 line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Anadiplosis.

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)?
(a) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(b) Antithesis and oxymoron.
(c) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(d) Epistrophe and chiasmus.

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

4. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(c) Columbus's voyage.
(d) The American Revolution.

5. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Epizeuxis.
(c) Epistrophe.
(d) Antanaclasis.

Short Answer 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)?

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

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

4. Who is the author of "The Gift Outright"?

5. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?

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