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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 "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,/ Possessed by what we now no more possessed" (lines 6-7)?
(a) Antithesis and oxymoron.
(b) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(c) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(d) Epistrophe and chiasmus.

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

3. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Chiasmus.

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)?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Personification.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Metonymy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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