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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 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) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(b) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(c) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
(d) Antithesis and oxymoron.

2. 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) Alliteration.
(b) Personification.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Metonymy.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?

5. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?

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