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

2. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?
(a) Asyndeton.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Euphemism.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

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

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

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

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

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