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

2. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Metonymy.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?

2. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?

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

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