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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) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(b) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
(c) Antithesis and oxymoron.
(d) Chiasmus and antithesis.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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