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

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

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

4. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The American land.
(b) The wars fought to secure land.
(c) The American people.
(d) The history of the United States.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?

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

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

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

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

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