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

2. 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) Metonymy.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Personification.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?

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

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

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