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

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

3. 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.

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

5. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?
(a) The land Americans live on.
(b) Freedom from England.
(c) Americans themselves.
(d) Surrender and salvation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?

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

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

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

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

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