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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. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The American Revolution.
(b) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(c) The American Civil War.
(d) Columbus's voyage.

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

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

4. 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) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(d) Antithesis and oxymoron.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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