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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. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(d) Columbus's voyage.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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