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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 finding the courage to fight England.
(b) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.
(c) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.
(d) By realizing our own weakness.

2. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Anadiplosis.

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)?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Personification.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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