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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. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The history of the United States.
(b) The American land.
(c) The wars fought to secure land.
(d) The American people.

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

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

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

5. 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) The American Revolution.
(d) Columbus's voyage.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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