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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) Synecdoche and asyndeton.
(b) Antithesis and synecdoche.
(c) Asyndeton and apostrophe.
(d) Apostrophe and antithesis.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?

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

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

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