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

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

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

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

5. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(b) The American Civil War.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) Columbus's voyage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?

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

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

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

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