2. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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 Westward expansion of the United States.
(d) The American Civil War.

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

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