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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) "Still colonials" (line 5).
(c) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(d) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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