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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?

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

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

4. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?

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

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