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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 lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Personification.
(d) Symbolism.

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

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

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

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

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. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?

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

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

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

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