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

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

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

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

6. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Blank verse.
(b) Ballad meter.
(c) Free verse.
(d) Heroic verse.

7. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Americans themselves.
(b) The land Americans live on.
(c) Freedom from England.
(d) Surrender and salvation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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