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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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