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

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

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

4. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?
(a) The land Americans live on.
(b) Surrender and salvation.
(c) Americans themselves.
(d) Freedom from England.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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)?

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

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

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

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