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

2. 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) Alliteration.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Personification.

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

4. 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 still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(d) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).

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

Short Answer 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)?

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

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

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

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

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