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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?

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

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

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

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

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