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

2. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.
(b) By realizing our own weakness.
(c) By finding the courage to fight England.
(d) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.

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

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

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

Short Answer 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)?

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

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

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

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

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