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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) The American Civil War.
(b) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(c) Columbus's voyage.
(d) The American Revolution.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?

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

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

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