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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) "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).

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

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

4. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Revolutionaries.
(c) Colonists.
(d) Americans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?

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

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

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

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

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