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

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

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

4. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?
(a) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).
(b) "Still colonials" (line 5).
(c) "Something we were withholding" (line 8).
(d) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).

5. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Chiasmus.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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