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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 technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Assonance.

2. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
(a) The Westward expansion of the United States.
(b) The Louisiana Purchase.
(c) The American Civil War.
(d) The forced resettlement of Native peoples.

3. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?
(a) Nevertheless.
(b) Continuing to be.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Unmoving.

4. 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) Metonymy.
(c) Personification.
(d) Symbolism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

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

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

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

5. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?

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