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

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

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

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

5. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Anadiplosis.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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)?

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