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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) Epizeuxis.
(c) Antanaclasis.
(d) Anadiplosis.

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

3. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) Columbus's voyage.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

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

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