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

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

4. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?
(a) Unmoving.
(b) Nevertheless.
(c) Continuing to be.
(d) Quiet.

5. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?
(a) Colonists.
(b) Revolutionaries.
(c) Americans.
(d) Farmers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?

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

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)?

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

5. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?

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