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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 line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Symbolism.

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

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

4. 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) Symbolism.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Personification.

5. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Antanaclasis.
(c) Epistrophe.
(d) Epizeuxis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

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

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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