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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 technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Symbolism.

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

3. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
(a) The Louisiana Purchase.
(b) The American Civil War.
(c) The forced resettlement of Native peoples.
(d) The Westward expansion of the United States.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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