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

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

3. 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)?
(a) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
(b) Antithesis and oxymoron.
(c) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(d) Chiasmus and antithesis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?

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

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

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