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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 lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Symbolism.

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

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

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

5. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Chiasmus.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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