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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?

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

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

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

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