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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 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 American Civil War.
(d) The Louisiana Purchase.

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

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

4. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Colonists.
(c) Americans.
(d) Revolutionaries.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?

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

4. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?

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

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