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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 "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,/ Possessed by what we now no more possessed" (lines 6-7)?
(a) Antithesis and oxymoron.
(b) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(c) Epistrophe and chiasmus.
(d) Oxymoron and epistrophe.

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

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

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

5. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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