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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. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Ballad meter.
(b) Blank verse.
(c) Heroic verse.
(d) Free verse.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

2. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "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. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?

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