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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. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "The Gift Outright"?

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

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

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

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