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

2. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Anaphora.

3. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.
(b) By realizing our own weakness.
(c) By finding the courage to fight England.
(d) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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)?

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

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

5. 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)?

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