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

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

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

4. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?
(a) Unmoving.
(b) Continuing to be.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Nevertheless.

5. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Asyndeton.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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)?

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

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