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

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

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

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

5. 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) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(b) Antithesis and oxymoron.
(c) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
(d) Chiasmus and antithesis.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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