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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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