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

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

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

4. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Personification.
(d) Alliteration.

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

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

3. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?

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

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

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