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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

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

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

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

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