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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 term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Ballad meter.
(b) Heroic verse.
(c) Blank verse.
(d) Free verse.

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

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

4. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?
(a) Asyndeton and apostrophe.
(b) Antithesis and synecdoche.
(c) Synecdoche and asyndeton.
(d) Apostrophe and antithesis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?

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