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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 7 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

2. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?

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

4. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the poem's title.

2. What does the speaker mean by "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?

3. What does the speaker claim makes the colonists "weak," and what is the solution to this weakness (line 8)?

4. What is implied by the diction the speaker uses to describe the lands yet to be conquered by American settlers: "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

5. To whom is it implied the pronouns "our" and "we" refer in this poem?

6. Explain the synecdoche in line 4, "In Massachusetts, in Virginia."

7. Describe the form of "The Gift Outright."

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