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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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