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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 phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Asyndeton.

2. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By realizing our own weakness.
(b) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.
(c) By finding the courage to fight England.
(d) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.

3. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?
(a) Synecdoche and asyndeton.
(b) Antithesis and synecdoche.
(c) Asyndeton and apostrophe.
(d) Apostrophe and antithesis.

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

5. 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) Metonymy.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Symbolism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?

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

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

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

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