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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. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The history of the United States.
(b) The American people.
(c) The American land.
(d) The wars fought to secure land.

2. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?
(a) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(b) "Still colonials" (line 5).
(c) "Something we were withholding" (line 8).
(d) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?

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

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

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