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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The Pilgrims' first landing.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The American Civil War.
(d) Columbus's voyage.

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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