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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 Pilgrims' first landing.
(b) Columbus's voyage.
(c) The American Civil War.
(d) The American Revolution.

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

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

4. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.
(b) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.
(c) By finding the courage to fight England.
(d) By realizing our own weakness.

5. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?
(a) "Something we were withholding" (line 8).
(b) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).
(c) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(d) "Still colonials" (line 5).

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

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

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

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

5. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?

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