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

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

3. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Ballad meter.
(b) Free verse.
(c) Blank verse.
(d) Heroic verse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?

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

3. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?

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

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

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