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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) Asyndeton and apostrophe.
(b) Synecdoche and asyndeton.
(c) Antithesis and synecdoche.
(d) Apostrophe and antithesis.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?

2. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?

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

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

5. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?

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